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Lessons of Darkness

Lessons of Darkness

1992 · 54 min · DE · 7.9 (166 votes)
Dir. Werner Herzog · Starring Werner Herzog
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Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.

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A stark, almost otherworldly gaze upon the scarred, burning landscape of post-war Kuwait. It's a hauntingly beautiful, yet deeply unsettling meditation on destruction and humanity's strange allure to devastation.

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