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Lessons of Darkness

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Werner Herzog View All

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Werner Herzog (Director), Werner Herzog (Writer) View All

Release: Oct. 25th, 1995

Runtime: 54 minutes

Shot in documentary style from the perspective of an almost alien observer, the film is an exploration of the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait. An effective companion to his earlier film Fata Morgana, Herzog again perceives the desert as a landscape with its own voice, as he glides over seas of oil, geyser-like infernos, monstrous smoke plumes and ashen roadways. With musical accompaniment by Wagner, Prokofiev and P�rt to boot, he...

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