The Return of the Aurochs

Director: Michael Schlamberger

30,000 years ago Stone Age hunters painted mythical creatures on cave walls.
An amazing story begins with these enigmatic images. It reaches into today’s Europe and tells of an amazing undertaking: to make amends for an old injustice.

The film is about the adventurous attempt to bring back the aurochs, which existed in Europe for thousands of years and were exterminated 400 years ago.

Using state-of-the-art technology, the previously unknown life of a mythical animal is revealed and for the first time we see how aurochs live in the wild, how they raise their young, protect themselves from enemies, determine the hierarchy within the herd and how they still look after their contribute to the preservation of their habitat.