Lessons of Darkness

Lessons of Darkness
"Has life without fire become unbearable for them?"
Directed byWerner Herzog
Written byWerner Herzog
Produced byPaul Berriff
Werner Herzog
Lucki Stipetić
Narrated byWerner Herzog
CinematographySimon Werry
Paul Berriff
Rainer Klausmann
Edited byRainer Standke
Production
companies
Distributed byWerner Herzog Filmproduktion
Release date
  • 1992 (1992)
Running time
50 minutes
CountriesGermany
France
United Kingdom
LanguagesGerman
English
Arabic

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.[1] An effective companion to Herzog's earlier film Fata Morgana, the film again perceives the desert as a landscape with its voice.[2]

A co-production with Paul Berriff, the film was financed by the television studios Canal+ and Première.[3]

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