---
title: 'Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Werner Herzog'
released: '1984-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 100
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/where-the-green-ants-dream-1984'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088412/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)

1984 · 100 min · Drama · Germany

Original title: Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen

## Synopsis

Where the Green Ants Dream is a 1984 English-language West German film directed and co-written by Werner Herzog, made in Australia. Based on a true story about Indigenous land rights in Australia, but slated as a mixture of fact and fiction, it only got a limited release in Australia, where it was not well received by critics; the film fared a bit better in Europe and North America.

## Credits

- **Screenplay:** [Bob Ellis](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-ellis), [Werner Herzog](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-herzog)
- **Director:** [Werner Herzog](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-herzog)
- **Producer:** [Werner Herzog](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-herzog), [Lucki Stipetić](https://cinepixo.com/people/lucki-stipetic)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Wandjuk Marika](https://cinepixo.com/people/wandjuk-marika)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein](https://cinepixo.com/people/jorg-schmidt-reitwein)
- **Editor:** [Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus](https://cinepixo.com/people/beate-mainka-jellinghaus)

## Cast

- [Colleen Clifford](https://cinepixo.com/people/colleen-clifford)
- [Ray Barrett](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-barrett)
- [James Ricketson](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-ricketson)
- [Norman Kaye](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-kaye)
- [Christopher Cain](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-cain)
- [Bruce Spence](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruce-spence)
- [Bob Ellis](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-ellis)
- [Paul Cox](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-cox)
- [Hugh Keays-Byrne](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-keays-byrne)
- [Werner Herzog](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-herzog)
- [Tony Llewelyn-Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-llewelyn-jones)

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