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Lessons of darkness

Documentary about the Gulf War.

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  • "Lektionen in Finsternis"
  • "Lessons in darkness"
  • "Fata Morgana"
  • "Fata Morgana"@en

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  • "Lessons of darkness: In the aftermath of the Gulf War, retreating Iraqi soldiers left the oil fields of Kuwait a raging inferno. What resulted was not only a documentary about an environmental catastrophe, but also a powerful, strangely beautiful portrait of a world on fire. Fata Morgana: Herzog brings his cameras to the Sahara desert in order to film mirages. He combines the apocalyptic, often hallucinatory images of the desert with passages from the Mayan creation myth, the Popol Vuh, set to songs of Leonard Cohen."
  • "Lessons of darkness: A stirring documentary of 1992 post-Gulf War Kuwait, focusing on the oil well fires ignited by retreating Iraqi soldiers. What resulted is less a simple documentary about an environmental catastrophe than an apocalyptic vision of hell, a strangely beautiful portrait of a world on fire. Fata Morgana: Herzog brings his cameras to the Sahara desert in order to film mirages. He combines the apocalyptic, often hallucinatory images of the desert with passages from the Mayan creation myth, the Popol Vuh, set to songs of Leonard Cohen."
  • "A stirring documentary of 1992 post-Gulf War Kuwait, focusing on the oil well fires ignited by retreating Iraqi soldiers. What resulted is less a simple documentary about an environmental catastrophe than an apocalyptic vision of hell, a strangely beautiful portrait of a world on fire."
  • "Documentary about the Gulf War."
  • "Documentary about the Gulf War."@en
  • "'Lessons of darkness': In the aftermath of the Gulf War, retreating Iraqi soldiers left the oil fields of Kuwait a raging inferno which resulted in Werner Herzog and a small camera crew arriving on the scene to film the carnage. From this film, came a science fiction work which shows the planet vanishing beneath pillars of flame, oceans of oli, and impenetrable clouds of smoke."
  • "Lessons of Darkness--In the aftermath of the Gulf War, retreating Iraqi soldiers left the oil fields of Kurwait a raging inferno. What resulted was Lessons of Darkness--less a simple documentary about an environmental catastrophe that it is an apocalyptic vision of hell. Herzog has created a science fiction film, in which our planet vanishes beneath pillars of flame, oceans of oil, and impenetrable clouds of smoke. Fata Morgana--creates a science fiction elegyof demented colonialism in the Sahara deser after war."
  • "'Fata Morgana': Werner Herzog brings his cameras to the Sahara Desert in order to film mirages. He combines the apocalyptic, often hallucinatory images he discovered in the desert with passages from the Mayan creation myth, transforming a simple trick of the light into what he calls "a science-fiction elegy of demented colonialism". DVD."
  • "In the aftermath of the Gulf War, retreating Iraqi soldiers left the oil fields of Kuwait a raging inferno. True to form as perhaps the world's most death-defying filmmaker, Werner Herzog and a small camera crew arrived on the scene to film the carnage. What resulted was Lessons of darkness. Less a simple documentary about an environmental catastrophe than it is an apocalyptic vision of hell, Herzog has created a science fiction film, in which our planet vanishes beneath pillars of flame, oceans of oil, and impenetrable clouds of smoke. Punctuated by soaring music and Herzog's own commentary, Lessons of darkness is a powerful, breathtaking and strangely beautiful portrait of a world on fire."

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  • "English language films"
  • "Documentary"
  • "Nonfiction films"
  • "Environmental films"
  • "Documentary films"
  • "Feature films"
  • "German language films"
  • "Arabic language films"
  • "Motion pictures"
  • "DVDs"
  • "Science fiction films"
  • "Experimental films"

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  • "Lessons of darkness"
  • "Lessons of darkness"@en
  • "Lektionen in Finsternis"
  • "Lessons of darkness Fata Morgana"
  • "Lessons of darkness ; Fata Morgana"

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