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Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
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WODAABE: HERDSMEN OF THE SUN

Wodaabe: Die Hirten der Sonne

Directed by Werner Herzog
France, West Germany, 1989
Documentary, TV Movie

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis

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.

Our take

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.