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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…
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Source Greetings, friends of Cinetv, this time I bring you a film that many people don't realize is so intelligent. Released in 1981, it won an Oscar for Best Makeup, was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film, and for the César Award for Best Picture and Best Director for Frenchman Jean-Jacques Annaud, who directed actor Ron Perlman, who years later would become the face of Hell boy. We're talking about…More
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Before Perlman was Hellboy, he was Amoukar, a pre-historic troglodyte whose small clan centers on maintaining the precious embers which are the source of their fire. If the fire ever goes out and no ember is kept burning, the only way to recover the precious commodity is through theft or dumb luck (but how likely is it going to be that a lightning strike will start a fire nearby that can replenish your necessary fue…More