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Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Section: Homage | CineMerit Award Jean-Jacques Annaud
Country: France, Canada
Year: 1981
PT: Am Anfang war das Feuer
OT: LA GUERRE DU FEU
Language: Without Dialogue
Version: Original version
Cast: Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Naseer El-Kadi, Rae Dawn Chong, Gary Schwartz
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Logline
Quest For Fire
Not many movies demand the suspension of disbelief that Jean-Jacques Annaud's QUEST OF FIRE insists upon, and earns. The audience is asked to imagine that it is seeing what a movie camera would have seen, had the movie camera been invented 80,000 years ago. Some skeptici sm is in order, but it vanishes fast. QUEST OF FIRE is more than just a hugely enterprising science les son, although it certainly is that. It's also a touching, funny and suspenseful drama about prehumans.
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Meet the director
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Credits
Screenplay: Gérard Brach
Original Material: J.H. Rosny Sr.
Director of Photography: Claude Agostini
Film Editor: Yves Langlois
Composer: Philippe Sarde
Production Designer: Brian Morris, Guy J. Comtois
Costume Design: John Hay, Penny Rose
Sound: Ken Heeley-Ray
Producer: Denis Héroux, John Kemeny
Production Company: International Cinema Corporation (ICC)
Co-Producer: Véra Belmont, Jacques Dorfmann
Co-Production Company: Ciné Trail, Belstar Production
World Sales: Roissy Films