German director Werner Herzog seems to have an affinity for the environments of the socially outcast or the physically deformed. In WHERE THE GREEN ANTS DREAM he has traveled to Australia to be at home with the aborigines. Obsessed with the notion that these outcasts are pure souls in
touch with a superior spirituality, Herzog (like Peter Weir in THE LAST WAVE, Nicolas Roeg in WALKABOUT, and Dusan Makavejev in THE COCA-COLA KID) has given all his energy to bringing these people and their stories to the screen. Set on the tribal lands of the Riratjingu, the story concerns a
mining company that sends bulldozers and explosives to the land in preparation for opening a ...
Released:
1984
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins