Cave of Forgotten Dreams
| Country (Yr): | Canada, France, Germany, UK, USA (2010) |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Runtime: | 90min |
| Director: | Werner Herzog |
| Release date: | 12.01.2012 (German Switzerland) |
| Script: | Werner Herzog |
| Judith Thurman |
With a film crew of just four, German filmmaker Werner Herzog leads the audience into the Grottes de Chauvet, a series of caves closed to the public where in 1994 bones and paintings of animals - some extinct - were found, dating back to the aurignacian age, home to the first prehistoric culture contemporary to Neanderthal man. In interviews with specialists in speleology and archaeology, Herzog breathes life into the 31,000-year-old murals, drawing parallels between what are considered the oldest representations of human art and certain classics of modern culture, like the dance of Fred Astaire and the minotaur drawings of Picasso... Go to movie review from Constantin Xenakis
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