Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun

Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun

Infobox Film
name = Wodaabe- Herdsmen of the Sun


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director = Werner Herzog
narrator = Werner Herzog
producer = Patrick Sandrin
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cinematography = Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
editing = Maximiliane Mainka
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released = 1989
runtime = 52 min.
country = West Germany
language = German
English
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imdb_id = 0098669

"Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun" ( _de. Wodaabe - Die Hirten der Sonne) is a 1989 documentary film by Werner Herzog.The film explores the social rituals and cultural celebrations of the Saharan nomadic Wodaabe tribe. Particular focus is given to the Gerewol celebration, which features an elaborate male beauty contest to win wives.

Although the film may be considered to be ethnographic, Herzog commented that: " [My films] are anthropological only in as much as they try to explore the human condition at this particular time on this planet. I do not make films using images only of clouds and trees, I work with human beings because the way they function in different cultural groups interests me. If that makes me an anthropologist then so be it." cite book
last = Herzog
first = Werner
title = Herzog on Herzog
publisher = Faber and Faber
date = 2001
isbn = 0-571-20708-1
] The opening shots of the film depicts a celebration of male beauty, showing males dancing in elaborate costume, accentuating their height and whites of their eyes and teeth to attract females, as we hear "Ave Maria" in the background (a 1901 recording made by the last castrato of the Vatican).

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