Lessons of Darkness

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Lessons of Darkness
"Has life without fire become unbearable for them?"
Directed by	Werner Herzog
Written by	Werner Herzog
Produced by	Paul Berriff Werner Herzog Lucki Stipetić
Narrated by	Werner Herzog
Cinematography	Simon Werry Paul Berriff Rainer Klausmann
Edited by	Rainer Standke
Production companies	Canal+ Première Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Distributed by	Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Release date	1992 (1992)
Running time	50 minutes
Countries	Germany France United Kingdom
Languages	German English Arabic

Lessons of Darkness (German: Lektionen in Finsternis) is a 1992 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. The film is an exploration of the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait, decontextualized and characterized in such a way as to emphasize the terrain's cataclysmic strangeness.^[1] An effective companion to his earlier film Fata Morgana, Herzog again perceives the desert as a landscape with its voice.^[2]

A co-production with Paul Berriff, the film was financed by the television studios Canal+ and Première.^[3]