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Where the Green Ants Dream
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Title: Where the Green Ants Dream

Release Date: 31 Aug 1984

Runtime: 1h 40m

Genre: Drama

Director: ZDF, Pro-ject Filmproduktion, Werner Herzog Filmproduktion

Production Companies: ZDF, Pro-ject Filmproduktion, Werner Herzog Filmproduktion

Overview: The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.9 (53 votes)

Cast

  • Miliritbi: Wandjuk Marika
  • Dayipu: Roy Marika
  • Cole: Ray Barrett
  • Baldwin Ferguson: Norman Kaye
  • Fletcher: Ralph Cotterill
  • Lance Hackett: Bruce Spence
  • Arnold: Nico Lathouris
  • Judge Blackburn: Basil Clarke
  • Solicitor General Coulthard: Ray Marshall
  • Watson: Gary Williams
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