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Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2010 · TMDB 7.1

Directed by Werner Herzog

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.

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Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to the Chauvet Cave in southern France, filming the oldest known human paintings, some 32,000 years old, and meditating on time, art and the origins of imagination.

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