---
title: 'Quest for Fire (1981)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jean-Jacques Annaud'
released: '1981-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 105
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Fantasy'
countries:
  - 'France'
  - 'Canada'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/quest-for-fire-1981'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082484/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Quest for Fire (1981)

1981 · 105 min · Drama, Fantasy · France, Canada

Original title: La Guerre du feu

## Synopsis

Quest for Fire 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jean-Jacques Annaud](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-jacques-annaud)
- **Screenplay:** [Gérard Brach](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerard-brach)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Philippe Sarde](https://cinepixo.com/people/philippe-sarde)
- **Producer:** [Denis Héroux](https://cinepixo.com/people/denis-heroux), [Jacques Dorfmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-dorfmann), [Véra Belmont](https://cinepixo.com/people/vera-belmont), [John Kemeny](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-kemeny)
- **Director of Photography:** [Claude Agostini](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-agostini)
- **Editor:** [Yves Langlois](https://cinepixo.com/people/yves-langlois)

## Cast

- [Everett McGill](https://cinepixo.com/people/everett-mcgill) as Naoh
- [Nicholas Kadi](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicholas-kadi) as Gaw
- [Ron Perlman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ron-perlman) as Amoukar
- [Great Antonio](https://cinepixo.com/people/great-antonio) as Kzamm tribesmen
- [Franck-Olivier Bonnet](https://cinepixo.com/people/franck-olivier-bonnet) as Aghu
- [Gary Schwartz](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-schwartz) as Rouka
- [George Buza](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-buza) as Kzamm tribesmen
- [Kurt Schiegl](https://cinepixo.com/people/kurt-schiegl) as Faum
- [Rae Dawn Chong](https://cinepixo.com/people/rae-dawn-chong) as Ika
- [Joy Boushel](https://cinepixo.com/people/joy-boushel) as Sura
- [Robert Lavoie](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-lavoie) as Tsor

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