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Released
1986 · FILM

The Clan of the Cave Bear

“At The Dawn Of Mankind, A Woman Led The Way.”

Directed by
Michael Chapman, Michael Chapman Nm0152469
Written by
Jean M Auel, John Sayles
Runtime
98 min
AdventureDramaFantasy

Synopsis

In *The Clan of the Cave Bear*, natural changes prompt the clans to move. Iza, a medicine woman of the Clan of the Cave Bear, discovers Ayla, a young girl from an "others" clan. By tradition, the clan would kill Ayla, but Iza insists on keeping her. When Ayla finds a new cave that proves essential for the clan's survival, she is allowed to remain and eventually thrives.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Wendy Greene BricmontShot by Jan De BontScored by Alan SilvestriDesigned by Anthony Masters

Box Office

1986 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.0M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$2.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Ayla und der Clan des Bärende
  • El clan del oso cavernarioes
  • Le Clan de la caverne des oursfr
  • Cro Magnon: odissea nella preistoriait

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