The Wild Blue Yonder
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Poster for the Italian version |
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Directed by | Werner Herzog |
Produced by | Herzog Filmproduktion Tetramedia |
Written by | Werner Herzog |
Starring | Brad Dourif as the alien |
Music by | Ernst Reijseger Mola Sylla |
Distributed by | Fandango |
Release date(s) | November 25, 2005 (USA) |
Running time | 81 min. |
Language | English |
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The Wild Blue Yonder is a science fiction documentary film by the German director Werner Herzog, released in 2005. It has been presented at the 62nd Venice Film Festival, where it was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize.
The film is about an extraterrestrial (played by Brad Dourif) who came to Earth several years ago from a water planet (The Wild Blue Yonder), after his species exhausted their resources. His narration reveals that the aliens have tried through the years to form a community on our planet, though without great success.
The alien also tells the story of a space mission he became aware of after finding a job with the CIA. In the late 90s, he says, the debris from the Roswell UFO crash was unearthed and examined. The scientists falsely believed that they had contracted an infectious alien disease from the debris, and an exploratory mission was launched to Blue Yonder (represented with archival footage from STS-34 and Henry Kaiser's diving expedition in Antarctica) in order that a new, uninfected human colony might be created there. After deciding Blue Yonder was suitable for human habitation, the astronauts returned home to Earth 800 years later only to discover that the planet had been abandoned in their absence.
The scenes in space are courtesy of NASA and feature authentic astronauts.