Quest for Fire
A Science Fantasy Adventure
Country
Production
Budget
$12 000 000
Box office
$55 260 558
Director
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
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Denis Héroux, John Kemeny
Camera operator
Claude Agostini
Composer
Artist
Brian Morris, Guy J. Comtois, Raymond Larose
Audition
Ellen Chenoweth, Lois Planco, Lesley De Pettit
Editing
Yves Langlois
Whole Team (102)
Whole Team (102)
Short description
In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start a new fire, the tribe sends three warriors on a quest for more. With the tribe's future at stake, the warriors make their way across a treacherous landscape full of hostile tribes and monstrous beasts. On their journey, they encounter Ika, a woman who has the knowledge they seek.
What's left behind the scenes
- 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.
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