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Lessons of Darkness

Lessons of Darkness

1992•54 min.•

FranceUnited Kingdom

★7.8(133)

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.
  • War
  • Documentary

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