Quest For Fire DVD

• Audio commentaries by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Michael Gruskoff, Ron Perlman and Rae Dawn Chong
• 15 video galleries with director's commentary
• Theatrical trailer
• Featurette

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman, Nameer El-Kadi, Gary Schwartz

Quest for Fire takes place some eighty thousand years in the past. The cave-dwelling Ulam tribe huddles around a natural fire source for comfort and survival. When that source is extinguished, tribesmen Naoh (Everett McGill), Amoukar (Ron Perlman) and Gaw (Nameer El-Kadi) are sent out on a "quest for fire." After several days of wandering through the prehistoric landscape (the film was shot in Canada, Scotland, Iceland and Kenya), the three Ulams come across the warmongering Ivakas, who have stumbled upon the secret of creating fire. Ivaka woman Ika (Rae Dawn Chong) is captured by the Ulams in the hopes that she'll reveal the secret. That Ika is hardly an unwilling captive is demonstrated by the casual cruelties of the Ivakas, which include dismemberment and cannibalism. Based on a novel by J. H. Rosny Sr., Quest for Fire convincingly creates the world of the Past and believably molds its characters within the context of their surroundings and their limited knowledge of the world. The credibility factor is aided by technical consultants Desmond Morris and Anthony Burgess, who respectively developed a set of gestures and a simplistic language for the Ulams and Ivakas. An Oscar went to John Hay and Penny Rose's costume design.