Lessons of Darkness (1992)

Original title

Lektionen in Finsternis

Directed by

Werner Herzog

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, France

Runtime

50 min

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 156 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary shows the oil fields of Kuwait after the Gulf War ended. Herzog reveals a landscape of burning wells and black rain. The film treats the destruction as a strange and terrible spectacle.

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What happens

Lessons of Darkness (German: Lektionen in Finsternis) is a 1992 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. The film is an exploration of the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait, portrayed in a manner that accentuates the catastrophic and surreal nature of the landscape. An effective companion to Herzog's earlier film Fata Morgana, the film 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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