Fresh
An engaging prehistoric yarn that happily never degenerates into a club and lion skin spinoff of Star Wars and resolutely refuses to bludgeon the viewer with facile or gratuitous effects.
Variety Staff, Variety
Quest for Fire
A Science Fantasy Adventure
1981 · 1h 40m · R
Adventure, Drama
Directed by
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Jean-Jacques Annaud Director
- Everett McGill as Naoh
- Ron Perlman as Amoukar
- Nicholas Kadi as Gaw
- Rae Dawn Chong as Ika
- Gary Schwartz as Rouka - tribu Ulam
- Naseer El-Kadi as Nam - tribu Ulam
- Franck-Olivier Bonnet as Aghoo - tribu Ulam
- Jean-Michel Kindt as Lakar - tribu Ulam
- Kurt Schiegl as Faum - tribu Ulam
- Brian Gillin as Modoc - tribu Ulam
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Quest for Fire boldly states its claims to dance along the abyss of the ridiculous.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
''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.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
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