Doc & Talk: Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Join us for a monthly documentary and discussion series. Each month's film selection will be available for streaming on kanopy.com. View the film at your leisure anytime leading up to the online video discussion  Thursday 4/29 at 7:00 pm via the provided Google Hangouts link. 

This month is Werner Herzog's 1997 film Little Dieter Needs To Fly.

"In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories?"

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Watch the film here:

https://denverlibrary.kanopy.com/video/little-dieter-needs-fly

Join the discussion here:

https://meet.google.com/aan-snwi-bzr?authuser=1