| Edition |
Widescreen version. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
013000 |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
digital |
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NTSC |
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video file DVD video region 1 |
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Motion picture. |
| System Details |
DVD; region 1, NTSC; 5.1 Dolby digital surround; anamorphic widescreen presentation preserving the 1.78:1 aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition, enhanced for widescreen televisions. |
| Performer |
Narrated by Werner Herzog. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Peter Zeitlinger ; editors, Joe Bini, Maya Hawke ; music, Ernst Reijseger ; executive producers, Dave Harding, Julian P. Hobbs, David McKillop, Molly Thompson. |
| Note |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2010. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Rated G. |
| Summary |
Overcoming considerable technical challenges, iconic director Werner Herzog takes viewers into the interior of Chauvet Cave in southern France where the world's oldest cave paintings--hundreds in number--were discovered in 1994. These 32,000-year-old artworks--pristine and astonishingly realistic drawings of horses, cattle, and lions--come alive in the torchlight, as Herzog muses on this extraordinary place, the nature and purpose of Paleolithic art, and its creators. For Herzog, these paintings present perhaps the earliest manifestation of our primal desire to communicate and represent the world around us, which leads him to wider metaphysical contemplations on evolution and our place within it, and ultimately on what it means to be human. |
| Contents |
Credits/In the Ardeche -- First exploration -- Long forgotten dreams -- Pont d'Arc -- Crooked finger -- Audible images -- Awakening of the modern soul -- Underground chambers -- Hunting and the mystery of the Minotaur -- Homo spiritualis -- Visions, voice, and humanness -- Post script/End credits. |
| Note |
Special features include: Ode to the dawn of man (39 min.); Trailer [for the film] (2 min.); Previews (9 min.). |
| Language |
In English with optional subtitles in English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing) or Spanish. |
| Subject |
Chauvet Cave (France)
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Cave paintings -- France -- Vallon-Pont-d'Arc.
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Cave paintings. |
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France -- Vallon-Pont-d'Arc. |
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Art, Prehistoric -- France -- Vallon-Pont-d'Arc.
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Art, Prehistoric. |
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France -- Chauvet Cave. |
| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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| Added Author |
Herzog, Werner, 1942- director, screenwriter, narrator.
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Nelson, Erik, 1955- producer.
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Ciuffo, Adrienne, producer.
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Zeitlinger, Peter, director of photography.
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Bini, Joe, editor of moving image work.
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Hawke, Maya, editor of moving image work.
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Reijseger, Ernst, composer (expression)
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Harding, Dave, producer.
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Hobbs, Julian P., producer.
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McKillop, David H., producer.
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Thompson, Molly, producer.
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Sundance Selects (Firm), production company.
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IFC Films, production company.
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Creative Differences Productions, production company.
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History Films, production company.
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France. Ministère de la culture et de la communication, production company.
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Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel (France), production company.
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MPI Media Group, film distributor.
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| ISBN |
9780788614156 |
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0788614150 |
| Standard No. |
030306979298 |
| Music No. |
IFC9792 IFC Films |
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