Director
Werner Herzog
Movie Type
Archeology
Archaeological facts
"My intellectual, my spiritual awakening was in a way connected to Paleolithic cave paintings," German writer and director Werner Herzog has admitted. The Chauvet Cave in southern France was discovered by scientists in 1994 and estimated to be more than 30,000 years old. Inside they found hundreds of playful paintings from a period when Neanderthals were situated in France along with bison, bears, mammoths, and lions. The Cave had been sealed off by a fallen rock face which preserved a space as large as a football field.
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Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a 2010 3D documentary film by Werner Herzog about the Chauvet Cave in southern France that contains the oldest human-painted images yet discovered. Some of them were crafted as much as 32,000 years ago. The film consists of images from inside the cave as well as of interviews with various scientists and historians.The film also includes footage of the nearby Pont d'Arc natural bridge.
