Feb 7th 2024

Werner Herzog: Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) // Lessons of Darkness (1992)

@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago

1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637

Opening Wednesday, February 7th, at 7PM

Werner Herzog · 46m // 54m · DCP

Herzog has a singular approach to talking about war, and in this double feature, he centers unconventional voices. Ballad of the Little Soldier meditates on the loss of innocence in Nicaraguan child soldiers fighting against the Sandinistas. Lessons of Darkness has as its main characters inanimate objects — from tools of torture to burning oil fields —, recontextualized to present Kuwait as a hellish, alien planet following the suffering of the Gulf War.

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