Film Restored – opening and screening ‘Little Dieter Needs to Fly’

The seventh edition of the Film Heritage Festival will open with a short welcoming speech by Dr. Rainer Rother, Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek.

THE DRAMA OF REALITY

Screening ‘Little Dieter Needs to Fly / Flucht aus Laos’, GER/GB, 1997, directed by Werner Herzog

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Original format: 16 mm, 1:1,33, color 

Screening print: DCP, 80 min, Werner Herzog Film GmbH 

The film tells the spectacular story of Dieter Dengler, a German who emigrated to America and became a pilot with the US navy during the Vietnam war. He was shot down and spent time in a brutal prison camp, but managed to escape and became a war hero. ‘Little Dieter Needs to Fly’ is a virtual prototype of Werner Herzog’s method of documentary filmmaking. It is illustrative of his “ecstatic truth” that tran- scends the mere depiction of reality. Herzog does that with an extremely subjective approach, the stylization of key expe- riences, and re-enactments that push psychological boundaries.

The digitization used the original 16mm A and B negatives. The 2K scan and color grading were done by Thomas Bakels (Alpha Omega digital GmbH).

Introduction: Kristina Jaspers (Deutsche Kinemathek)

→ Tickets: 8,50 €