Finally got to see this wonderful film, will also buy the dvd which is selling for around a tenner. Amazing cave paintings, up to 32,000 years old preserved in pristine condition by a rock fall which effectively sealed the cave.

The postscript was interesting in the light of the glacier-melt discussion going on elsewhere; the valley where the cave is found was once covered in ice. Now, just 20 miles away, there is a nuclear power plant. The water used to cool the reactors is pumped into an artificial tropical park which is in effect a massive greenhouse. Crocodiles live there and are breeding very well in the humid conditions - only they are producing albino mutants. Herzog didn't say whether this was anything to do with radioactivity or not. Thought provoking ... that art from the Palaeolithic past can survive when so much else seems to be going to hell in a handcart.