Where the Green Ants Dream [Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen] ** (1984, Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika) – Classic Movie Review 9266

Writer-director Werner Herzog’s 1984 Where the Green Ants Dream [Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen] is a disappointing film from Herzog about Australian Aborigines clashing with uranium miners over rights to their land that they believe be sacred. It is of course the place where the green ants dream.

Bruce Spence plays geologist Lance Hackett, employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills before a planned extraction of uranium.

This time, the great German director of the masterful 1972 triumph Aguirre: Wrath of God can’t make much out of the ecological message.

Also in the cast are Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett, Norman Kaye and Colleen Clifford.

Where the Green Ants Dream [Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen] is directed by Werner Herzog, runs 100 minutes, is made by Pro-ject Filmproduktion, Werner Herzog Filmproduktion and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, is released by Filmverlag der Autoren (1984) (West Germany), Orion Classics (1985) (US) and Artificial Eye (UK), is written by Werner Herzog and Bob Ellis, is shot by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, is produced by Lucki Stipetic and is designed by Ulrich Bergfelder.

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