Where the Green Ants Dream

A desolate stretch of earth somewhere in Australia. Two tribes of First Peoples, the Wororas and the Riratjingus, preserve their ancient legends, songs and laws of creation here. Theirs is a struggle for a culture, stories and laws that are the result of 40,000 years of living in the desert. They come into conflict with the laws of modern Australia and the interests of a large company that works to mine uranium in one of their holy places, the place where the Green Ants dream.

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Credits

producer

Lucki Stipetic

production company

Werner Herzog Filmproduktion

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

director

Werner Herzog

Duration

01:40:00:00

Production places

Germany (West)

Production dates

1984

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324835

Language

English

Audience classification

PG

Subject categories

Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Culture conflict

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Australia

Feature films → Feature films - Germany

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q2265591

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Germany (West), 1984

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