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Lessons of Darkness ()

Lektionen in Finsternis (original title)
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This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.
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Directed by

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Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog ... ()

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Paul Berriff ... producer
Paul Cotton ... associate producer
Werner Herzog ... executive producer
Hartmut Klenke ... production delegate
Lucki Stipetic ... associate producer

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Paul Berriff

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Rainer Standke

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Manfred Arbter ... sound mixer
John Pearson ... sound (as John G. Pearson)
Nainita Desai ... assistant sound editor (uncredited)

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Steve Brooke Smith ... assistant camera (as Steve Brook-Smith)
Claudius Kelterborn ... assistant camera
Rainer Klausmann ... second camera
Simon Werry ... aerial camera operator

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Michael Kreihsl ... music coordinator (uncredited)

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Jerry Grayson ... aerial helicopter pilot
Werner Herzog ... commentary
Yelena Makarczyk ... closed-captioning (uncredited)

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Also Known As
  • Leçons de ténèbres (France)
  • Lecciones en la oscuridad (Spain)
  • Lessons of Darkness (United Kingdom)
  • Lessons of Darkness (World-wide, English title)
  • Lessons of Darkness (Canada, English title)
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  • 54 min
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Trivia Director Werner Herzog cheerfully admitted that the quote at the beginning of the film, allegedly by Pascal, was completely made up and falsely attributed to give it more weight. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Episode #7.3 (1994). See more »
Soundtracks Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (Death of Aase) See more »
Quotes Narrator: Two figures are approaching an oil well. One of them holds a lighted torch. What are they up to? Are they going to rekindle the blaze? Is life without fire become unbearable for them?... Others, seized by madness, follow suit. Now they are content. Now there is something to extinguish again.
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