Quest for Fire (1982)

In terms of what the movie is about and the time period of human existence the film deals with no other production comes to close to depicting and dealing with the topic of the surge of mankind in such a true, honest, subtle, but yet ambitious manner. This film is a must see for intellectuals, students and anyone having a keen interest of origin and history. The close minded, ignorant or disinterested should seek something else to do and as most people apply to the latter this is why the film is so underrated. As the Quest for Fire was made in the early eighties and a lot of insight and knowledge about prehistoric times has been gained since then this movie needs to desperately be remade for today's audience.

This is a good "caveman" film, and very much intends to be a serious effort. Archaeological and anthropological knowledge change all the time, so today the film is not always accurate, and will probably be less so tomorrow. Acting is quite good, so are makeup and costuming. Communication among characters is, of course, archaic, leaving little to criticize. What I didn't care for are the scenery changes. It appears they travel so far to find fire they move to entirely different biomes in the process. That would involve trekking hundreds if not a thousand miles or more -- unlikely, unrealistic, and certainly unnecessary for the film.Quest for Fire is a good effort on many fronts and, decades later, still gets high marks for entertainment. It's one of only two serious films in the genre, the other being Clan of the Cave Bear. In my opinion, the film industry needs to continue creatively working on the challenge of making an entirely first-rate film about our Paleolithic ancestors. It's not an easy challenge at all.

Quest for Fire (French: La Guerre du feu) is a 1981 film adaptation of the 1911 Belgian novel by J.-H. Rosny,and is probably the greatest pre-historic epic ever filmed, but the funny part is that i've never heard about this filmbefore today. I kinda did a blind-buy when a picked this film so it was like 'whatever' for me. But for my surprise, this film is a bit interesting. The cavemen are surprisingly intelligent in areas such as hunt and attack, and they also have a sub-par instinct and will to live and survive.Sure it is a little nonsense at times, and the fact that it has no dialogs in any real language known in the world don't helps that much, but it needs to be in that way in order to keep the 'disbelief' suspended for it. Obviously, it would be weird to watch Cavemans from 80.000 years ago talking in English.But yeah, as every film which touches in subjects related with the creationist theory, this film drew his fair amount of controversies at the time of it's release. Nothing too strong, though, since that this film is not the most popular out there.I don't have any complaints about the acting, i thought it was very normal, with a few low moments. It's not the kind of film which relies that much in acting, anyways. It's the kind of film that requires the actor to be as bizarre and grotesque possible, which actually is not a hard job. The use of soundtrack is good, very good actually, but the film don't has plenty of quality tracks, so it is kinda off.A recommended film, though not for everyone. 6.6/10

The precise path of the evolution of the human societies is not known, especially during the Stone Age period (about 10,000 BC) which predates the historical periods of written documents or other findings that can reveal details on society rules and norms, judicial system and commerce.This movie provides a glimpse in the endless quest of man of Neolithic age to establish his livelihood and place within nature. In those times fire must have played a big role: it helped to cook, forge tools and weapons for hunting and self defense against predators or other tribes.This film is about the quest of three tribesmen who belong to a northern cave-dwelling tribe. After losing their sacred fire they set out towards the hotter and more fertile southern plains in order to recover and bring back another fire. This journey is very dangerous since they have to avoid natural predators, other tribes with cannibalistic diets and certainly the elements of nature e.g. bad weather, ragged and inhospitable terrain with limited food supply.I enjoyed very much this film keeping in mind its speculative character. No one can say what it was like in those times but let's not forget: this is a movie, not a documentary.