Cette histoire se déroule dans la préhistoire lorsque trois hommes d'une tribu partent à la recherche d'une nouvelle source de feu.Cette histoire se déroule dans la préhistoire lorsque trois hommes d'une tribu partent à la recherche d'une nouvelle source de feu.Cette histoire se déroule dans la préhistoire lorsque trois hommes d'une tribu partent à la recherche d'une nouvelle source de feu.
- Récompensé par 1 Oscar
- 11 victoires et 8 nominations au total
- Gaw
- (as Nameer El-Kadi)
- Aghoo - The Ulam Tribe
- (as Frank Olivier Bonnet)
- The Ulam Tribe
- (as Joy Boushell)
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- AnecdotesBoth Ron Perlman and Everett McGill suffered frostbite; luckily they were able to heal completely. Despite the working conditions, they both enjoyed making the film.
- GaffesThe movie is set 80,000 years ago, and appears to show the one tribe has made pottery. Fragments of ancient pottery found in southern China date back to only 20,000 years, making them the world's oldest known pottery. However, the vessel shown is actually a dried hollow gourd.
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Title Card: 80,000 years ago, man's survival in a vast uncharted land depended on the possession of fire. / For those early humans, fire was an object of great mystery, since no one had mastered its creation. Fire had to be stolen from nature, it had to be kept alive - sheltered from wind and rain, guarded from rival tribes. / Fire was a symbol of power and a means of survival. The tribe who possessed fire, possessed life.
- Versions alternativesAll UK versions are cut by 8 secs and are missing a shot of a wolf on fire.
- ConnexionsFeatured in À propos de 'La guerre du feu' (1981)
Later, I learned who Annaud was and admired 'The Name of the Rose' for its direction, its translation of a difficult book and its effort at realism. Finally, I rented 'Quest for Fire' on DVD and saw it on the big home screen. (In fact, I watched it several months ago and I'm commenting now because it remains in my mind.)
Experts can quibble about the realism. But for me, this film makes an intelligent and credible effort to present a world of 80,000 years ago. In this, it raises good questions about who we are as a species. Human genetic code has not changed in that time and any one of the beings portrayed would be perfectly capable of using a computer as I'm doing now. Nonetheless, they lived in a world without numbers, without prices, without trade, without written language and without means to create fire. Everyone alive today had an ancestor who survived those conditions. 'Quest for Fire' is a must-see for anyone curious about the human condition.
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- 22 févr. 2004
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- Quest for Fire
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- Budget
- 12 500 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 20 959 585 $US
- Montant brut mondial
- 20 962 615 $US
- Durée1 heure 40 minutes
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- Rapport de forme
- 2.35 : 1