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Lektionen in Finsternis = Lessons of darkness / Lessons of darkness Lessons in darkness Fata morgana , Great Britain Germany France Spain - 1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Lektionen in Finsternis originally produced in 1992, Fata Morgana in 1969. Lektionen in Finsternis: Wide screen (1.77:1); Fata Morgana: Full screen (1.33:1). Also issued as part of the box set: Werner Herzog. Box set accompanied by a booklet (16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm) with notes on each film in the set. Features: Lektionen in Finsternis: production notes; Fata Morgana: optional audio commentary by Werner Herzog, Norman Hill and Crispin Glover; production notes.

Lektionen in Finsternis = Lessons of darkness / Fata Morgana = Mirage / produziert von Paul Berriff und Werner Herzog ; Regie, Werner Herzog ; eine Co-Produktion von Canal+ Frankreich mit Canal+ Spanien, in Zusammenarbeit mit ITEL ein Film von Werner Herzog ; Werner Herzog Filmproduktion side A: (54 min.) -- side B: (76 min.).

Lektionen in Finsternis: editor, Rainer Standke ; camera, Paul Berriff, Rainer Klausmann. Fata Morgana: songs, Leonard Cohen ; editor, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus ; photography, Jorg Schmidt-Reitwein. Lektionen in Finsternis: editor, Rainer Standke ; camera, Paul Berriff, Rainer Klausmann. Fata Morgana: songs, Leonard Cohen ; editor, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus ; photography, Jorg Schmidt-Reitwein.

Fata Morgana: narrator, Lotte Eisner.

Lektionen in Finsternis: a documentary of 1992 post-Gulf War Kuwait, focusing on the oil well fires ignited by retreating Iraqi soldiers. 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.


DVD, double-sided.


English or German soundtracks (Dolby digital mono) with optional English subtitles for second film.

Standard No.: 013131277593

Publisher. No.: DV12775-C Anchor Bay Entertainment DV12775 Anchor Bay Entertainment DV12775BK Anchor Bay Entertainment

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1991

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Persian Gulf War, 1991--Destruction and pillage--Kuwait.
Oil wells--Kuwait.
Fire extinction--Kuwait.
Mirages.
Guerre du golfe Persique, 1991--Destruction et pillage--Koweït.
Pétrole--Puits--Koweït.
Incendies--Extinction--Koweït.
Mirages.
Destruction and pillage.
Fire extinction.
Mirages.
Oil wells.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Sahara.
Sahara.
Kuwait.
Sahara.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Documentary films.
Experimental films.
Feature films.
Documentary films.
Experimental films.
Documentary films.
Experimental films.
Feature films.
Documentaires.
Films expérimentaux.

LC Class. No.: DS79.744.E58 / L47 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 956.70442