Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Wow.this is a touching story! First i saw 'Rescue Dawn'.I didn't 'like' it. And now i have seen the person , Dieter Dengler , about whom this story is being told by Herzog.Very Impressing.Dieter is a driven human being who... Full review

I had the opportunity to see this last evening at a local film festival. Herzog introduced the film and did an hour long Q&A afterward.This is a brilliantly done "documentary"; Herzog explained afterward that he does not consider his films... Full review

I consider this a breathtaking but deceptive film because it seems so simple and straightforward: a Vietnam survivor tells his harrowing tale and some of the story is reenacted on location. Reviewers sometimes even claim that Herzog's presence in the... Full review

This documentary film from the great film-maker Werner Herzog, tells the story of Dieter Dengler, who grew up in Germany with a passion for flight. Emigrating to the US he joins the Army in order to become a pilot, during... Full review

After I finished watching this intriguing documentary, I wondered; how much of Little Dieter was in Herzog, and vice versa? For Werner Herzog(and Dieter likewise) seemed capable of evoking a whole spectrum of human emotions in his works, however idiosyncratic... Full review

"I'm not a hero. Only people who are dead are heroes." - Dieter DenglerLittle Dieter Needs to Fly, a 1997 documentary by Werner Herzog of the life of Vietnam war-hero Dieter Dengler, begins with a quotation from the Book of... Full review

Your jaw will drop to the floor about 3 minutes into the movie......and you won't pick it up again until the end. Drips with irony......as only real life stories can. A masterpiece. A must see in theatre, on video.......any which... Full review

This film is excellent! Fear of watching documentary movies? Cancel your shrink and watch little Dieter's story. You won't believe how captivating this fine piece of film making is until you have experienced it. I'm eager to say that it... Full review

The movie is mainly a monologue, with glimpses of Dieter's life nowadays, but built in its central section around the somewhat bizarre device of having him return to the jungle with a band of Vietnamese who partly reenact his experiences... Full review

Little Dieter Needs to Fly was my first film during the 1999 edition of the Göteborg Filmfestival. As I was extremely tired that evening, I was hesitant to see it, but the raving overall score of 9 here at IMDB... Full review

As I'm hard pressed to think of any film playing in town that I'd recommend more, here's another write-up. Herzog's charmingly gloomy voiceover floats over cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger's stunning visuals of Antarctic volcanoes and the otherworldly ocean ecosystems that thrive underneath thick shelves of ice, and the filmmaker's usual mopey reflections set a tone that's at once uplifting and somber (he calls the Antarctic "a seemingly endless void" at the film's outset, and things only get more cheery f ... Full Review

After we're gone, implies this strange and lovely movie, the universe will still roll gloriously, unconsciously on. The image is instantly enduring, a summation of the filmmaker's bleak view of the cosmos in one packed tragicomic shot. ... Full Review

Veteran screenwriter/director Werner Herzog based this war drama on one of his favorite tales, which he told in a different form in 1997, with the documentary "Little Dieter Needs to Fly. And as you'd expect, the cast is terrific. ... Full Review

When a documentary film is as powerful as Little Dieter Needs to Fly , its DVD release can be forgiven for going light on the extras. Herzog captures these remarkable moments as if by sheer accident. ... Full Review

When a documentary film is as powerful as Little Dieter Needs to Fly , its DVD release can be forgiven for going light on the extras.....Dengler freely admits that he can still hear the voices of his dead friends.....Herzog captures these remarkable moments as if by sheer accident.....Herzog's symphonic use of native chants compliments the evocative use of stock footage from the war.....The disc's crisp audio honors the unshakable intensity of the film's songs and chants..... ... Full Review

quote: Originally posted by schrodt I'm sure your response to "Rescue Dawn" was an honest one, but let me say that I think much of the backlash against Herzog among critics because of "Rescue Dawn" has been almost offensively misguided. ... Full Article

If indeed Dieter's memory of the event is more interpretation than pure recollection, it's remarkable for its adaptiveness. You can't believe that this is what little Dieter takes away from his first brush with death. As one of his fellow ... Full Article

Bale will star in "Rescue Dawn," an action drama by Werner Herzog and based on his acclaimed 1997 documentary, Little Dieter Needs to Fly Christian Bale and Steve Zahn will team up for the sake of " Rescue Dawn ." ... Full Article

LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY: Documentary. Directed by Werner Herzog. (Not rated. 80 minutes. At the Roxie Cinema through April 2.) A sense of Herzog's own desperation, a mixture of poetry, acute loneliness and reckless bravado found its way into... ... Full Article

Synopsis: An extraordinary documentary about an extraordinary man, Werner Herzog's LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY details the life of Dieter Dengler, a survivor of both WWII and Vietnam. ... Full Article

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