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Where the Green Ants Dream

  • Film
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Time Out says

A bunch of inscrutable Aboriginals occupy a patch of Australian desert, sitting down in the path of oil prospectors. Why these surly Abos? Why these belligerent Diggers? It's all because the land is a sacred burial site for mythical green ants - except that no such creatures figure in Aboriginal mythology, they're just bugs in Herzog's brain. That doesn't matter. We follow the protesting Aboriginals through a court case (the most laughable scene in this badly acted, sloppily directed movie), and back to their sit-down strike, still uncertain whether this is meant to be an adventure in anthropology, an exercise in environmental agit-prop, or just an excuse for Herzog to spend someone else's fortune laying classical music over shots of empty desert.
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Release Details

  • Duration:100 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Werner Herzog
  • Screenwriter:Werner Herzog
  • Cast:
    • Bruce Spence
    • Wandjuk Marika
    • Roy Marika
    • Ray Barrett
    • Norman Kaye
    • Colleen Clifford
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