Quest for Fire (film)
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| Directed by | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| Produced by | Jacques Dorfmann John Kemeny Véra Belmont Denis Héroux Michael Gruskoff |
| Screenplay by | Gérard Brach |
| Based on |
The Quest for Fire by J.-H. Rosny |
| Starring |
Everett McGill Rae Dawn Chong Ron Perlman Nameer El-Kadi |
| Music by | Philippe Sarde |
| Cinematography | Claude Agostini |
| Edited by | Yves Langlois |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Release date
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February 12, 1982 |
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Running time
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100 minutes |
| Country | Canada France |
| Language | Invented language |
| Budget | $12 million |
| Box office | €40,602,910 ($55,260,558) |
Quest for Fire (French: La Guerre du feu) is a 1981 French-Canadian adventure film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, written by Gérard Brach and starring Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nameer El-Kadi and Rae Dawn Chong. It is a film adaptation of the 1911 homonymous Belgian novel by J.-H. Rosny. It won the Academy Award for Makeup. Michael D. Moore was the associate producer in charge of action and animal scenes.
The story is set in Paleolithic Europe (80,000 years ago), with its plot surrounding the struggle for control of fire by early humans. The movie was filmed on location in Cairngorms National Park in Scotland and and Lake Magadi in Kenya. The opening sequence was filmed at Cathedral Grove on Vancouver Island, BC (forest scenery) whereas the cave home was filmed at Greig's Caves on the Bruce Peninsula along the Niagara Escarpment near Lion's Head, Ontario.
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