10,000 BC (film)
2008 film directed by Roland Emmerich
10,000 BC is a 2008 American action-adventure film, directed by Roland Emmerich, and written by Emmerich and Harald Kloser. The cast includes Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, and Cliff Curtis. The film depicts the journeys of a prehistoric tribe of mammoth hunters.
10,000 BC premiered at Potsdamer Platz on February 10, 2008, and was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 7. It received negative reviews from critics and grossed $270 million against a $105 million budget.
Plot
In 10,000 BC, a hunter-gatherer tribe called the Yagahl lives in the Ural Mountains. They survive by hunting woolly mammoths, but as the migrations grow scarcer, uncertainty about their future mounts. When a young blue-eyed girl is brought to their camp, the Yagahl's shaman, Old Mother, prophesies that "four-legged demons" will come for them after their last mammoth hunt. The girl, Evolet, will be betrothed to the hunt's champion, and the pair will lead the Yagahl into a new way of life.
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