Storyville

Season 1997

1997 · 5 episodes · 7h 25m in all

Episodes

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   1. Little Dieter Needs to Fly

   15 Nov 1997 · 80 min

   Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.

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   2. Nobody's Business

   22 Nov 1997 · 60 min

   Filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles his father's life.

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   3. Wednesday

   29 Nov 1997 · 93 min

   Victor Kossakovsky searched obsessively for inhabitants of St. Petersburg who were born on Wednesday 19 July 1961, his own birthday, in former Leningrad. Fifty-one women and fifty men fitted the profile. In the course of time a few of these 101 people had died, others had moved to another community or abroad. But in 1995 Kossakovsky managed to capture on film all seventy remaining residents, in the street, at work or simply at home. While doing so he spent time with doctors and patients, entertainers and businessmen, construction workers and homeless people. In his unorthodox style Kossakovsky has produced a beautiful profile of people in their thirties in St. Petersburg.

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   4. Naughty Boy

   6 Dec 1997 · 62 min

   A profile of Danish film-maker Ole Ege, whose work pushed the boundaries of acceptability when Denmark legalized pornography in 1969.

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   5. Paradise Lost

   13 Dec 1997 · 150 min

   A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.