Lektionen in Finsternis (Lessons of Darkness)

Name: Lektionen in Finsternis (Lessons of Darkness)
Released: 1992

Werner Herzog

New German Cinema

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Synopsis

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.

Year1992

CountryGermany

DirectorWerner Herzog

MovementNew German Cinema

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I learned from Herzog, from films like Lessons of Darkness, that documentary, like fiction, needs to find forms that are poetic, that transform the experience of reality, rather than simply represent it.