Quest for Fire

Name: Quest for Fire
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Released: February 12, 1982
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Brian Gill, Everett McGill, Franck-Olivier Bonnet, Gary Schwartz, Jean-Michel Kindt

1982

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AMLF | Release Date: February 12, 1982 | R

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

Summary: This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, History

Rating: R

Runtime: 100 min

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Janet Maslin

Quest for Fire is more than just a hugely enterprising science lesson, although it certainly is that. It's also a touching, funny and suspenseful drama about prehumans. Read full review

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Jay Scott

The title is a tease: Quest For Fire is the quest for understanding, the quest for an answer, the quest for The Answer. Quest For Fire maintains that in the space of 80,000 years we have walked a long, long way, and have come scarcely any distance at all. [12 Feb 1982]

Roger Ebert

These characters and their quest began to grow on me, and by the time the movie was over I cared very much about how their lives would turn out. Read full review

David Ansen

Quest for Fire is diverting and well made, and kids should love it. Chong is delightful as the first feminist heroine. And as bloody and brutish as the fights are, the film is resoundingly sweet-natured at heart. [15 Feb 1982, p.61]

Staff (Not Credited)

If you have a weakness for exotic scenery (filmed in Canada, Scotland, Kenya), and some curiosity about the everyday life of prehistoric humankind, you will probably take some mild pleasure in this saga of the Ulam tribe's search for a way to light their fire. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Although occasionally bleak, the film affords many pleasurable moments, showing early man learning to laugh and expressing delight and amazement at the sight of fire. Read full review

Empire Ian Nathan

This is supposed to be serious hard-hitting but with most prehistoric depictions, only manages either school reconstruction or parody. Read full review

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Gamzguy17

Aug 21, 2021

"Quest for Fire" was a solid reminder about why I enjoy watching films and learning about their art; they are able to express ideas and tell stories by means of well put-together shots, detailed sounds/music, and emotionally charged body language.

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rata900

Jan 10, 2020

Muy buena la verdad, te cuenta por lo que podrían haber pasado nuestros ancestros, en busca de dominar el fuego.

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tonyGreen

Jan 22, 2023

A brave and unique film, albeit based on some pretty dubious / conjectural anthropology (Desmond Morris). If you can commit to see it through, it's actually a pretty solid story.
I don't know if we can consider 'consent' as a concept understood by proto-humans. I would like to think theA brave and unique film, albeit based on some pretty dubious / conjectural anthropology (Desmond Morris). If you can commit to see it through, it's actually a pretty solid story.
I don't know if we can consider 'consent' as a concept understood by proto-humans. I would like to think the concept existed, if not as a word. So yeah, this film contains depictions of sexual violence.… Expand

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Thorragnarok

Jan 25, 2019

Start- disgusting
Middle- disgusting
End- disgusting
Total- very disgusting

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