
Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.
Crew

Werner Herzog
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Rainer Standke
Editor

Paul Berriff
Director of Photography, Producer

Rainer Klausmann
Director of Photography
Paul Cotton
Associate Producer
Lucki Stipetić
Associate Producer
Steve Brooke Smith
Assistant Camera
Claudius Kelterborn
Assistant Camera
Simon Werry
Aerial Camera

Nainita Desai
Assistant Sound Editor
Manfred Arbter
Sound Mixer
John Pearson
Sound Recordist

Arvo Pärt
Additional Soundtrack



















