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Lektionen in Finsternis

Lessons of Darkness
Film still from LEKTIONEN IN FINSTERNIS: You can see a burning oil well and thick, black smoke.
© Werner Herzog Film / Deutsche Kinemathek

Thu 09.02.
20:00

  • Director

    Werner Herzog

  • Germany, UK / 1992
    54 min. / 35 mm / German version

  • Original language

    German

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender
  • Introduction: Magnus Knoll

A film like a requiem. The detritus left behind by the defeated Iraqi invading army: tanks and military equipment shot to pieces, destroyed settlements and streets, burning oil wells, contaminated ground in Kuwait, where extinguishing teams with special tools try to put out the fire. Survivors give accounts of torture and suffering, it is a journey into darkness, a lament about mistreated creation. There is no aestheticization of violence, but rather the heightened depiction of a human-made catastrophe.

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media