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Anticipating Rescue Dawn: Werner Herzog’s Little Dieter Needs to Fly
In related reading, TIM WONG describes Little Dieter Needs to Fly as “a remarkable documentary of soaring human resilience... a memoir told with pathos and visible emotion, and other times with cool detachment, much like the captive résistance hero in Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped – all of which is coaxed to the surface by Herzog’s decision to escort Dengler back to the sites of his trauma as a prisoner of war.” More on the extraordinary true story of Dieter Dengler as a prelude to Werner Herzog’s Rescue Dawn, screening this July and August at the Telecom New Zealand International Film Festivals....[Read More] (links to The Film Reader)





