Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Little Dieter Needs to Fly
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Directed by	Werner Herzog
Written by	Werner Herzog
Produced by	Lucki Stipetić
Starring	Dieter Dengler Werner Herzog (voice) Eugene Deatrick
Narrated by	Werner Herzog Dieter Dengler
Cinematography	Peter Zeitlinger
Edited by	Joe Bini Glen Scantlebury Rainer Standke
Production companies	Werner Herzog Filmproduktion ZDF BBC Arte Media Ventures
Distributed by	Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Release date	August 1997 (1997-08) (Telluride)
Running time	78 minutes (with postscript filmed in 2001) 74 minutes (theatrical) 52 minutes (television)
Countries	Germany United Kingdom France
Languages	English German

Little Dieter Needs to Fly (German: Flucht aus Laos, lit. 'Escape from Laos') is a 1997 German-British-French documentary film written and directed by Werner Herzog, produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, and premiered on German television. The film follows the life of Dieter Dengler, in particular being shot down during the Vietnam War and his capture, imprisonment, escape, and rescue. Herzog went on to direct a dramatized version of the story, Rescue Dawn, which stars Christian Bale as Dengler in 2006.

Little Dieter Needs to Fly was released on DVD in 1998 by Anchor Bay, and on Blu-Ray in 2014 by Shout! Factory as a part of a larger collection of Herzog's films.^[1]