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Finding Altamira

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Original title

Altamira

Year

2016

Running time

90 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Hugh Hudson

Screenwriter

Olivia Hetreed, José Luis López-Linares

Cast

Music

Mark Knopfler, Evelyn Glennie

Cinematography

José Luis Alcaine

Producer

Co-production United Kingdom-France-Spain;

Mare Nostrum Productions, El Maestro de Altamira A.I.E, Fox International Productions, Morena Films, Sympathetic Ink, Telefónica Studios, RTVE, Mogambo

Genre

Drama | Biography. 19th Century. Painting

Synopsis

Year 1879. Amidst the green hills, snow-capped peaks and dramatic coastline of Northern Spain, nine year old Maria Sautuola, and her father, Marcelino (Antonio Banderas), an amateur archaeologist, discover something truly extraordinary, something that will change the history of mankind. The first cave art – breathtakingly fresh and accomplished paintings of galloping bison. At first all goes well, even the King comes to admire the cave, but Maria’s mother, the lovely and devout Conchita, is not the only one disturbed at the idea that prehistoric “savages” could have created such magnificent art.

The Catholic Church sees the claim of ten thousand year old art as an attack on Biblical truth by Godless rationalists. Shockingly the scientists prove just as dogmatic and reactionary. Instead of examining the evidence, Carthailac, the leading prehistorian, condemns Marcelino and his discovery as fakes. Maria’s fairytale world grows dark and her attempts to help only make things worse. The family is thrown into crisis and the cave locked up. It takes all their love for each other to find a way through to redemption and recognition.

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Finding Altamira

2016

Hugh Hudson

5.1

(2,567)