Little Dieter Needs to Fly . Newcity Chicago . 10-05-98

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

DIRECTED BY: Werner Herzog

REVIEWED: 10-05-98

Werner Herzog's career as a director of eccentric features may have withered away, but his occasional documentaries soar. Dieter Dengler grew up in the Black Forest, dreaming of flying the way the Allied pilots zooming over his house had when he was a child. He came to America and became a Navy pilot, shipped out to Vietnam, and was shot down and captured over Laos forty minutes into his first mission. Herzog and Dengler retrace his steps as a prisoner of war who escaped into Herzog's eternal vision of hell, the raucous, unrelenting jungle. Some of Dengler's claims seem utterly outrageous, and Herzog prompts him to greater heights. Madmen, particularly a pair of them, may make the best storytellers. 80m. 35mm.

--Ray Pride

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