Quest for Fire

La Guerre du feu (1981)

Timing: 1:40 (100 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

Release date

1981-12-16

Country

Canada, France, United States

Production

20th Century Fox, Stéphan Films, Belstar Productions, International Cinema Corporation (ICC), Ciné Trail, Gruskoff Film Organization, Royal Bank of Canada, Famous Players Limited

Genre

Adventure, Drama

Budget

$2 147 483 647

Revenue

$55 260 558

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Director

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Actors

Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nicholas Kadi, Rae Dawn Chong, Gary Schwartz, Naseer El-Kadi, Franck-Olivier Bonnet, Jean-Michel Kindt, Kurt Schiegl, Brian Gillin
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Scenario

Gérard Brach

Producer

Operator

Claude Agostini

Composer

Artist

Raymond Larose

Audition

Ellen Chenoweth, Lois Planco, Lesley De Pettit

Editing

Yves Langlois
All team (100)

• A loose adaptation of the eponymous work by J.H. Ronny.
• The film features no articulate speech; characters communicate through sounds of a primitive language or gestures.
• The author of the primitive "languages" was Anthony Burgess. He created a language for each tribe featured in the film, basing them on distorted modern languages: English, French, and Italian.
• The film presents three biological species of humans, sequentially preceding one another according to evolutionary theory: Pithecanthropus, Neanderthals, and Cro-Magnons.
• Location shooting took place in Scotland, Canada, and Kenya.
• The film marked Ron Perlman’s debut in cinema.
• In almost all scenes, with rare exceptions, Ray Dawn Chong appeared completely nude, although her face and body were covered in gray clay. At the time of filming, she was of legal age according to European law, but had not yet reached the age of majority (21 years) according to US law.