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Lektionen in Finsternis = Lessons of darkness /

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: DV12775-C | Anchor Bay EntertainmentDV12775 | Anchor Bay Entertainment | (set)DV12775BK | Anchor Bay Entertainment | (booklet)Language: English, German Original language: German Subtitle language: English Publisher: Troy, MI : Anchor Bay Entertainment, [2004]Description: 1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

Other title:

Lessons of darkness
Lessons in darkness
Fata morgana

Uniform titles:

Popol vuh.

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

956.70442 22

LOC classification:

DS79.744.E58 L47 2004

Other classification:

24.32

Contents:

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

Production credits:

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.Summary: 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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-01827 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050164592

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.

DVD, double-sided.

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

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