Lessons of Darkness(Movie, 1992)

Name: Lessons of Darkness
Genre: War, Documentary
Released: 1992
Duration: T00:54:00
Rating: 4

Original title: "Lektionen in Finsternis" (German/DE)

| 54min | Genres: War, Documentary

Rating: 4.0/5 (with 56 votes)

Lessons of Darkness (German: Lektionen in Finsternis) is a 1992 film directed by Werner Herzog. Shot in documentary style on 16-millimeter film from the perspective of an almost alien observer, the film is an exploration of the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait, decontextualized and characterized in such a way as to emphasize the terrain's cataclysmic strangeness. An effective companion to his earlier film Fata Morgana, Herzog again perceives the desert as a landscape with its voice. A co-production with Paul Berriff, the film was financed by the television studios Canal+ and Première. ()

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About Lessons of Darkness

This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames. In contrast to the common documentary film there are no comments and few interviews. What must have been the hell itself is presented to the viewer in such beautiful sights and beautiful music that one has to be fascinated by it.

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Werner Herzog film collection: Lessons of Darkness - Trailer(Trailer, 2:23)

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Production countries: Germany, France, United Kingdom (UK), Kuwait

Made by: Canal Plus, Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Première

Original language: German (DE)

Spoken languages: Arabic (AR), German (DE), English (EN)

Translated into 11 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/25/1995 (World premiere: 02/21/1992)

Cast: Werner Herzog

Director: Werner Herzog

Producer: Lucki Stipetić

Screenwriter: Werner Herzog

Composer: Richard Wagner

Keywords: gulf war, kuwait, oil field, fire

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