NEANDERTAL The mystery of the Bruniquel cave

Who was able to penetrate 300 metres into the bottom of a cave in the gorges of the Aveyron to build structures composed of more than 400 broken stalagmites?
At what time? And above all, why?
Since the discovery of the cave in 1990 by a young speleologist, this amazing architecture has never revealed its secrets.
In 2014, a team of researchers decided to return there, hoping to finally solve the enigma of the Bruniquel cave. For 4 years, we followed them in their investigation... And the Neanderthal man is the hero.

• 2019 PUBLIC GRAND PRIZE and PRIZE at FIFAN (NYON, Switzerland)
• JURY 2019 GRAND PRIZE OF FICAB (International Archaeological Film Festival of Bidasoa, Irun, Spain)
• BEST SCIENTIFIC ADVENTURE FILM, LUMEXPLORE 2019, La Ciotat.
•  MENTION OF THE JURY and PRIZE OF THE JURY ARCHEOLBLOGGER at the FESTIVAL of the archaeological film of ROVERETO 2019 (Italy)
• SILVER PRIZE at the China International Conference of Science and Education Producers, China
• BEST ARCHEOLOGICAL FILM festival ARKHAIOS (USA)

A film by Luc-Henri Fage | Written by Luc-Henri Fage and Marianne Cramer | Scientific Advisors Jacques Jaubert, Sophie Verheyden, Dominique Genty, Michel Soulier | Music Michel Pascal | Voice commentary Valérie Lévy | Illustrations Emmanuel Roudier | Image Luc-Henri Fage | Sound Patrick Mauroy, Pascale Bougeault | Editing Fabrice Gérardi, Hélène Pasquet | Produced by Stéphane Millière and Agnès Garaudel | Coproduction ARTE France, GEDEON Programmes, Félis Production, CNRS Images.

Length of the film: 54 minutes. Quality: DVD-5 engraved. PAL

FRENCH VERSION and ENGLISH VERSION (narration in English and subtitles for dialogues)

45 min of BONUS : sequences cut during editing, interviews with researchers, etc.