Lessons of darkness : Fata Morgana /

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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Lektionen in Finsternis.
Corporate Authors:	International Television Enterprises, Ltd, Studio Canal+, Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Cable News Network, Premiere (Firm)
Other Authors:	Herzog, Werner, 1942-, Cohen, Leonard, 1934-2016, Eisner, Lotte H.
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	German English
Language Notes:	Languages: English and German with optional English subtitles for second film.
Published:	[Troy, Mich.] : Anchor Bay Entertainment, [2001]
Edition:	Widescreen presentation (Lessons of darkness), full-frame presentation (Fata Morgana).
Subjects:	Persian Gulf War, 1991. Oil wells > Fires and prevention > Kuwait. Fire extinction > Kuwait. Sahara. Mirages. Documentary films. Experimental films. Feature films.

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Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Description from container and disc labels. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Format:	DVD; Dolby digital mono; dual layers; aspect ratios: 1.77:1, enhanced for 16x9 TVs (Lessons of darkness), 1.33:1 (Fata Morgana).
Production Credits:	Lessons of darkness: director, Werner Herzog ; producers, Werner Herzog, Paul Berriff ; editor, Rainer Standke. Fata Morgana: writer/producer/director, Werner Herzog ; songs, Leonard Cohen ; editor, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus ; narrator, Lotte Eisner ; photography, Jorg Schmidt-Reitwein.