Quest for Fire

Quest for Fire (French: La Guerre du feu) is a 1981 science fantasy adventure film set in the Paleolithic era, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, written by Gérard Brach and starring Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nameer El-Kadi and Rae Dawn Chong. The Canadian-French co-production is a film adaptation of the 1911 Belgian novel The Quest for Fire by J.-H. Rosny. The story is set "80,000 years ago", with a plot concerning the struggle for control of fire by early humans and their encounters with different hominid species. The film was critically acclaimed.

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Release date:: 1981
Director:: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast:: Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Rae Dawn Chong, Nicholas Kadi, Franck-Olivier Bonnet
Genre:: Fantasy, Drama
Country:: France, Canada
Language:: artistic language
Year page:: 1981 in adaptations