#Documentary lost caves of altamira movie

It is stated later Conchita may still be angry over the loss of her two other children. The family visits the graves of two babies, both named Maria.

As Conchita paints, Marcelino gets annoyed by comments in the newspaper by a writer who calls himself Tablanca and says Marcelino just wants fame. The Monseñor is there and concerned that Conchita is married to a man who believes such things, and he vows to make sure she understands what she should do. He says runaway slaves from Roman times did it.

Mero says the paintings can't be that old. After Vilanova examines the paintings, he talks to a group about the amazing discovery, saying they may be 10,000 years old and men from that time must have been as intelligent as men today. How can anything be older than Adam and Eve? Conchita tells Maria she does not disapprove. Conchita and Marcelino have a conversation suggesting Conchita does not like for Maria to learn anything that contradicts what the Church says. When they return home, Conchita is annoyed Maria got dirty in a cave. These paintings, he says, must be many thousands of years old, and yet they have not weathered and they look fresh. When Maria goes inside, she is amazed at the paintings of bison. Marcelino and Maria go to a cave that has not been opened for centuries and is now accessible. Marcelino and Maria look at a rock that is being used to clean with. Conchita stops and compliments artist Paul on his work restoring a painting of Adam and Eve being tempted. The family goes to church and Maria won't confess to being angry if it means she must stop being angry. Mero, a grouchy old man, who complains about everything, can't stand the idea of listening to a child and says so. Then it is announced Maria will play the piano. At an event at the Sautuola house, the entertainment includes an opera soprano. Later, Marcelino takes Maria to see a cave. He has presents, and Maria is so glad he is home. Then Marcelino returns home to Santander, Spain to his wife Conchita and his nine-year-old daughter Maria. The two men have a conversation with Cartailhac. There, one of the attractions is 'primitives', a group of people who behave just as the cavemen did, in front of an audience. In 1878, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola y de la Pedrueca and a man named Professor Vilanova attend the Exposition Universelle in Paris. At this point, adult Maria starts telling her story.

#Documentary lost caves of altamira movie

The movie goes back and forth between Cartailhac and the Monseñor telling his congregation the Church will not welcome anyone who tells people anything other than what is true about God and his creation. In Paris, a man named Cartailhac speaks to a large group about the importance of scientific discoveries such as those of Charles Darwin.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.