Ayla and the Bear Clan

Movie
German title	Ayla and the Bear Clan
Original title	The Clan of the Cave Bear
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1986
length	93 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Michael Chapman
script	John Sayles
production	Gerald I. Isenberg
music	Alan Silvestri
camera	Jan de Bont
cut	Wendy Greene Bricmont
occupation
Daryl Hannah : Ayla, grown up Nicole Eggert : Ayla, middle age Pamela Reed : Iza James Remar : Creb Thomas G. Waites : Broud Joey Cramer : Young Broud John Doolittle : Brun Curtis Armstrong : Goov

Ayla and the Clan of the Bear is an American film by the director Michael Chapman from 1986, based on the first novel - Ayla and the Clan of the Bear (original title: The Clan of the Cave Bear ) - a six-volume novel series by Jean M. Auel based. The film opened in German cinemas on May 15, 1986.

action

The film is set in Europe about 35,000 years ago, the "New Man" ( Cro-Magnon ) begins to displace the Neanderthals , who had previously been ancestral in Europe . In the story of "Ayla and the Bear Clan", the little girl Ayla, who loses her parents in an earthquake, is attacked by a cave lion from which she is hiding in a crevice. The animal wounds the child with one of its mighty paws. Half starved and seriously injured, she is found by a tribe of passing Neanderthals and raised by the medicine woman Iza and Creb, the shaman called "Mog-ur" . The two love Ayla very much, but she is and remains an unwanted outsider for the rest of the clan and is particularly brutalized by Broud, the son of the clan leader. To protect her, should Broud become the clan leader, Iza lets her in on the secrets of healing so that Ayla can take a respected place within the clan. Iza and Creb also teach them the language and customs of the clan, which are very different from theirs, which often creates problems.

Awards

Michael Westmore was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Makeup in 1987 . Westmore later became known for his work on various Star Trek series.

Reviews

• “Impressive film about intelligence development and acculturation ; original the Neanderthal dialogues with German subtitles. ”(Rating: 3 stars = very good) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon“ Films on TV ” , 1990

• “An attempt to use the Stone Age past as an emancipatory plea for the strength of women. The technically solid, but lengthy film manages to make some convincing statements about the development of basic human values; the film that he uses for this is of course overused, so that the Neanderthals tend to stick together in group-dynamic quarrels than fight for survival. ” - Lexicon of international film

literature

• Jean M. Auel: Ayla and the Clan of the Bear (Original title: The Clan of the Cave Bear ). German by Mechtild Sandberg-Ciletti . Weltbild, Augsburg 2006, 604 pages, ISBN 3-8289-8723-0 .

Web links

• The Clan of the bear in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Clan of the bear at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on TV" . Extended new edition. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 67
2. ↑ Ayla and the Bear Clan in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed January 6, 2008