Fires of Kuwait

The Inferno of Kuwait is an American documentary from the year 1992.

Action

After the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had set fire to the Kuwaiti oil fields, special teams were brought in from around the world in the small country to put out fires and to stop the pollution. The film introduces the different techniques that were used. So is used, for example, from a U.S. team TNT, which is brought to the explosion and its shock wave to smother the flames. A Hungarian team used the engines of a fighter jet, which is mounted on a tank, blow out the flame.

Criticism

Wrote Desson Howe of the Washington Post, on a normal canvas WOULD the film like a normal dedicated documentation. In the IMAX format, however, it may become a titanic and archetypal man - against - nature slugfest.

Awards

In 1993 the film was nominated in the category Best Documentary Oscar.

Barbara Kerr was awarded for her work Eddie, the Film Award of the American Cinema Editors.

Background

The film was shot in the IMAX system and is the first film of this kind, who received an Oscar nomination.

Speaker of the film was the actor Rip Torn.