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Plot summary
The Ulam keep a small flame burning for cooking and protection, and no one in the tribe knows how to make another. When ape-like Wagabu raiders force them from their cave, the Ulam take refuge in a marsh, where the seed flame is accidentally extinguished. The tribal elder chooses three men, Naoh, Amoukar and Gaw, to go in search of fire. Their way crosses hostile country and the territory of the Kzamm, a cannibal tribe with a roaring cooking fire. The three free captives left tied to a tree by the Kzamm, and a woman named Ika begins to follow them. Carrying a burning stick, they prepare to return home.
Cast
- Jean-Michel Kindtas Lakar - The Ulam Tribe
- Kurt Schieglas Faum - The Ulam Tribe
- Brian Gillinas Modoc - tribu Ulam
- Terry Fittas Hourk - The Ulam Tribe
- Bibi Casparias Gammla - The Ulam Tribe
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- Michelle Leducas Matr - The Ulam Tribe
- Christian Benardas Umbre - tribu Ulam
- Tarlok Sing Sevaas Tavawa - tribu Ivaka
- Lolamal Kapisisias La faiseur de feu - tribu Ivaka
- Brian Gillas Modoc - The Ulam Tribe
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Quest for Fire (1981)
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- Michael D. Moore, the associate producer in charge of action and animal scenes, spent six months training circus elephants to behave like mammoths. Strict Icelandic laws on transporting four-legged animals delayed their arrival, then a volcano erupted near the ranch where they would have stayed; had they been there, the elephants would have been killed.
- Novelist Anthony Burgess created the film's special language forms and anthropologist Desmond Morris devised the patterns of movement and gesture. The more advanced language of the Ivaka was largely based on Cree and Inuit, which amused speakers of those languages because the words have little to do with the plot.
- After Quest for Fire became a surprise box office hit, other productions copied its documentary-style approach to prehistory, including Lucio Fulci's Conquest (1983) and Umberto Lenzi's Ironmaster (1983), though those Italian B-movies had a strong fantasy orientation.
