This film was like a book you just can't put down. What makes Dieter Dengler's story so intensely compelling is because it delivers a message that the human experience lived by an individual (and ultimately, those around us...including maybe people you would never suspect) can be unbelievable. Dream-like. Nightmarish. But yet unflinchingly real.
And told from the voice of the person who experienced both the absolute horrors and unspeakable elation of life up until and possibly crossing into death makes it an important film to see
In a way, Herzog is like some sort of prophet of the human condition, bringing into view life seen from impossible angles -- alien territory and indescribable depths of experience -- depicting human existence in a way many of us can and may never fathom.
It's a great film