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Synopsis: In 1994, a group of scientists discovered a cave in Southern France perfectly preserved for over 20,000 years and containing the earliest known human paintings. Knowing the cultural significance that the Chauvet Cave holds, the French government immediately cut-off all access to it, save a few archaeologists and paleontologists. But documentary filmmaker, Werner Herzog, has been given limited access, and now we get to go inside examining beautiful artwork created by our ancient ancestors around 32,000 years ago. He asks questions to various historians and scientists about what these humans would have been like and trying to build a bridge from the past to the present.
Director(s): Werner Herzog
Production: IFC Films
  11 wins & 20 nominations.
 
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Year:
2010
90 min
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and it was so powerful.

Then every night,

I was dreaming of lions.

And every day was

the same shock for me.

It was an emotional shock.

I mean, I'm a scientist

but a human too.

And after five days, I decided

not to go back in the cave,

because I needed time

just to relax and take time to... -

To absorb it?

- To absorb it, yeah.

Yeah.

And you dreamt

not of paintings of lions

but of real lions.

- Of both, of both, definitely.

Yeah.

And you were afraid

in your dreams?

- I was not afraid, no.

No, no, I was not afraid.

It was more a feeling of

powerful things and deep things,

a way to understand things

which is not a direct way.

- Uh, sorry.

Silence, please.

Please don't move.

We're going to listen

to the silence in the cave,

and perhaps we can even hear

our own heartbeats.

These images

are memories

of long-forgotten dreams.

Is this their heartbeat

or ours?

Will we ever be able

to understand the vision

of the artists

across such an abyss of time?

There is an aura of melodrame

in this landscape.

It could be straight out

of a Wagner opera

or a painting

of German Romanticists.

Could this be our connection

to them?

This staging of a landscape

as an operatic event

does not belong

to the Romanticists alone.

Stone Age men might have had

a similar sense

of inner landscapes,

and it seems natural

that there's a whole cluster

of Paleolithic caves

right around here.

- The Chauvet Cave is just here

at the top of this cliff,

but the Chauvet Cave

is also associated

to this natural feature,

this beautiful arch

called Pont d'Arc.

Maybe this Pont d'Arc,

in the mythology of the people,

was not only a landmark

but a mark also

in the imagination,

in the stories,

in the mythology

that was important for them

to understand the world.

But what kind

of world was it

for Paleolithic people

back then?

- 35,000 years ago,

the Europe... -

Europe was covered by glaciers,

and in this glacial Europe,

you have to imagine a climate

dry, cold, but with sun also.

That was important.

In this place, for example,

you have to imagine

woolly rhinos,

mammoths along the rivers.

In the forest,

you had Megaloceros deers,

horses, reindeers, bisons,

and also ibex

or the antelopes moving.

So it was very rich.

The biomass

in this part of Europe

was very important

for the development of human

but also carnivores.

So you have to imagine

lions, bears, leopards,

wolves,

foxes in very large numbers.

And among all these carnivores

and predators, human.

Could it be how they

set up fires in Chauvet Cave?

There's evidence that they cast

their own shadows

against the panels of horses,

for example.

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director. Herzog is a figure of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Schröter, and Wim Wenders. Herzog's films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. more…

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