Product Details

• Actors: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika
• Directors: Werner Herzog
• Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Tango Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: April 25, 2006
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EPFTY8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,718 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Where the Green Ants Dream" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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WHERE THE GREEN ANTS DREAM - DVD Movie

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Open Your Eyes to the Dreams of the Green Ants, October 8, 2002

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"wytold" (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Where the Green Ants Dream [VHS] (VHS Tape)

There is amazing beauty in the stark outback of Australia where Herzog filmed this drama. It's the simple story of Aboriginals who are trying to save their reality from the onslaught of civilization.

Herzog turns the story into pure poetry which opens your mind to other versions of reality. All the characters he introduces are amazingly rich and complex. The are no absolute good or bad characters. Instead there is a world full of people who must act within the rules of their own particular realities.

I'm watched it multiple times and the film always shakes my belief in the "absolute truth" of my metaphysical system. Each time I realize that perhaps my version reality is not the only possibility. This is not a bad experience, rather it opens new worlds for me to explore.

I recommend this video for those who have an open mind. The video quality is so - so, but that only adds to the charm of the movie.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Herzog's Mad Max, May 2, 2006

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Jordan Hofer "Jordan P. Hofer" (Salem, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Where the Green Ants Dream (DVD)

I have never seen a Herzog film I haven't liked, just some more than others. This is an in-betweener, but excellent, as always. Similar in stark landscapes to "Fata Morgana", "Where the Green Ants Dream" offers barren vistas, mounds of dirt, holes in the ground, and apocalyptic hovels. The character of the anthropologist sums up the film best when he describes modern Western technology and what it has done to the biosphere as a man on a train who knows the tracks ahead are out and all he can do is run to the rear of the train. Definitely one of Herzog's more accessible stories, and perfect for viewing in an anthropology course. The ending reminds me of classic J.G. Ballard, in which the dynamic character chooses desolation over re-integration into the hellish culture from which he came. And, yeah, there's a bit of "Mad Max" in the apocalyptic theme as well.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars tops, July 11, 2003

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Bob Swain "Seattle" (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Where the Green Ants Dream [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This and a few films by Aki Kaurismaki, and Wenders' American Friend are the only ones that I need to see more than once. I've seen this movie about a dozen times and its understated tragedies are compelling without shrieking. Great video, if you can find a copy. There is a good essay about this film by a follower of Jean-Francois Lyotard in the book Judging Lyotard.