The world owes Herzog a great debt, and he has just the right amount of spirituality and understanding to properly set these paintings in the right context.

First time hearing about this cave...just amazing and hearing it through Herzog just gives it the magical touch.

I found this movie to be one of great significance for me personally. As an amateur artist I've drawn on walls and have a sense of the "talent" these ancient artists had. They had only the most primitive equipment, charcoal sticks, yet there is shading and expression in the animals. You feel like you want to give the horses an apple, and feel the power of the lions, and sense their tension. It takes a lot of practice to develop this skill yet one wonders how they could have practiced. You don't one day pick up a stick and draw like that.

The Fire Within is a tribute to volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft.

Have you seen his film The Fire Within?