Piccolo Dieter ha bisogno di volare, Il [t.l.] (1997)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Director/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Director of photography: Peter Zeitlinger, Leo Blank – Film editor: Rainer Standke – Sound: Ekkehart Baumung – Music: Béla Bartók, Carlos Gardel, Glenn Miller, Kongar-ol Ondar, Richard Wagner, Antonín Dvořák, Johann Sebastian Bach, the people of Altai-Sayan and the Ural Mountains – Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 80’
The film:
“The film goes back over the extraordinary and dramatic adventure of Dieter Dengler, a German pilot of the American aviation who, during a mission in Laos, crashed with his plane and was captured and held prisoner with other Americans. After he managed to escape, he had to face an exhausting escape through the jungle before being saved, at the end of his resources. […] In a backwards trip of the pilot Dieter Dengler, the most important aspect, besides the incredible story of the detention in Laos and the escape through the forest, is the stylization of the events that Herzog can realize. ‘We have been very careful reconstructing and stylizing Dieter’s reality. It was necessary that he became an actor who interprets himself’ says Herzog about the working method of this film, and he chooses again to intensify the reality and invent the stories suggested by real particular aspects and details. The fact, then, that this story became the subject of a fiction film (Rescue Down, 2006), does nothing but further illustrating the stylization path chosen by the German director.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 34/304]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Little Dieter Needs to Fly was conducted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and it was based on the original Super16 mm negatives conserved by Werner Herzog Film Archive.
The preservation of the film is part of a project to valorize the works by Werner Herzog, including the homage Signs of life. Tribute to Werner Herzog organized by Museo Nazionale del Cinema in 2008.
The event showed the complete retrospective, the photography exhibition, a concert and a workshop and it was realized together with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the Scuola Holden, the Teatro Regio of Torino, the Werner Herzog Film and the German Film.
The preservation was carried out in 2007 at the laboratories ARRI and Geyer.
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