Nov 03, 2010
90 min
Full-HD

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

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.

Werner Herzog

Narrator (voice)

Dominique Baffier

Self

Jean Clottes

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Jean-Michel Geneste

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Michel Philippe

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Gilles Tosello

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Carole Fritz

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Maria Malina

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