The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
- Date of release
- 2005-09-05
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (93)
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Documentary, Drama, Comedy
- Director
- Werner Herzog
Casting
- Brad Dourif — Alien
- Donald Williams — Astronaut Commander
- Ellen Baker — Astronaut physician
- Franklin Chang-Diaz — Astronaut Plasma Physicist
- Shannon Lucid — Astronaut biochemist
- Michael McCulley — Astronaut pilot
- Roger Diehl — Mathematician
- Martin Lo — Mathematician
- Ted Sweetser — Mathematician
Interesting facts
The Wild Blue Yonder is a 2005 science fiction fantasy film by German director Werner Herzog. It was presented at the 62nd Venice Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Award. It was screened in competition at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival and the Sitges Film Festival, winning the "Carnet Jove – Special Mention" award at the latter. Most of the film consists of recontextualized documentary footage which is overlaid with fictional narration. This technique was used in Herzog's earlier film Lessons of Darkness (1992).
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