movie
2010 · Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- southern france
- cave
- cave painting
- prehistory
- scientist
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Michel Philippe — Self
- Gilles Tosello — Self
- Carole Fritz — Self
- Maria Malina — Self
- Nicholas Conard — Self
- Valerie Feruglio — Self
- Wulf Hein — Self
- Maurice Maurin — Self
- Valeria Milenka Repnau — Self (voice)
- Charles Fathy — Interpreter (voice) (uncredited)
- Volker Schlöndorff — Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
- Directed
- Werner Herzog
- Written
- Judith Thurman, Werner Herzog
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 369 ratings
- Studio
- creative differences, History films, Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, ARTE
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
