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Where the Green Ants Dream
R1 DVD release cover.
Directed by	Werner Herzog
Produced by	Werner Herzog
Written by	Bob Ellis Werner Herzog
Starring	Bruce Spence
Music by	Wandjuk Marika
Cinematography	Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editing by	Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Release date(s)	1984
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	English

Where the Green Ants Dream (German: Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen) is a 1984 film by German film director Werner Herzog. It is set in the Australian desert and is about a land feud between a mining company and the native Aborigines. The Aborigines claim that an area the mining company wishes to work on is the place where green ants dream, and that disturbing them will destroy humanity. The film was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

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Cast

Bruce Spence - Lance Hackett
Wandjuk Marika - Miliritbi
Roy Marika - Dayipu
Ray Barrett - Cole
Norman Kaye - Baldwin Ferguson
Ralph Cotterill - Fletcher
Nick Lathouris - Arnold
Basil Clarke - Judge Blackburn
Ray Marshall - Solicitor General Coulthard
Dhungala I. Makika
Gary Williams - Watson
Tony Llewellyn-Jones - Fitzsimmons
Robert Brissenden
Michael Edols - Young attorney
Bob Ellis - Supermarket manager

References

^ "Festival de Cannes: Where the Green Ants Dream". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1251/year/1984.html. Retrieved 2009-06-23.

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Films directed by Werner Herzog

1960s	Herakles (1962) • Game in the Sand (1964) • The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967) • Last Words (1967) • Signs of Life (1968) • The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969) • Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)

1970s	Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) • Handicapped Future (1971) • Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) • Fata Morgana (1971) • Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) • The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) • The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) • Heart of Glass (1976) • No One Will Play with Me (1976) • How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) • Stroszek (1977) • La Soufrière (1977) • Nosferatu the Vampyre (1978) • Woyzeck (1978)

1980s	Huie's Sermon (1981) • God's Angry Man (1981) • Fitzcarraldo (1982) • Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) • The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984) • Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) • Portrait Werner Herzog (1986) • Cobra Verde (1987) • The French as seen by... (1988) • Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)

1990s	Film Lesson 1-4 (1990) • Echoes from a Somber Empire (1990) • Jag Mandir (1991) • Scream of Stone (1991) • Lessons of Darkness (1992) • Bells from the Deep (1993) • The Transformation of the World into Music (1994) • Death for Five Voices (1995) • Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) • The Lord and the Laden (1999) • My Best Fiend (1999)

2000s	Wings of Hope (2000) • Invincible (2001) • Pilgrimage (2001) • Ten Thousand Years Older (2002) • Wheel of Time (2003) • The White Diamond (2004) • Grizzly Man (2005) • The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) • Rescue Dawn (2007) • Encounters at the End of the World (2007) • Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) • My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)

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