WODAABE: HERDSMEN OF THE SUN

Wodaabe is a stylized film which takes us into the interpreted lives of the nomadic Wodaabe people of the Southern Sahara, who have been there since the Stone Age.

Werner Herzog confirms his unique sensibility as a documentarist in this acute exploration of the costumes of the Wodaabe people. Scoring the footage shot in the Sahara desert with baroque classical music to an idiosyncratic effect, Herzog ingeniously portrays the richness of the tribe’s traditions.