Quest for Fire
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1981 |
| Country | France, Canada |
| Director | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| Cast | Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nicholas Kadi, Rae Dawn Chong |
| Genre | Prehistoric adventure drama |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Quest for Fire | – |
| Español | En busca del fuego | En busca del fuego |
| Français | La Guerre du feu | La Guerre du feu |
| Deutsch | Am Anfang war das Feuer | Am Anfang war das Feuer |
| Português | A Guerra do Fogo | A Guerra do Fogo |
| Italiano | La guerra del fuoco | La guerra del fuoco |
| Русский | Борьба за огонь | Borba za ogon |
| 中文（简体） | 火之战 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 火之戰 | – |
| 한국어 | 불을 찾아서 | Bureul chajaseo |
| ไทย | – | – |
| Tiếng Việt | Cuộc chiến tìm lửa | Cuộc chiến tìm lửa |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Quest for Fire | Quest for Fire |
| 日本語 | 人類創世 | Jinrui Sōsei |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which survival instinct and cultural transmission collide within the origin of human becoming
■ Synopsis
Three prehistoric humans leave their tribe to recover fire and encounter a more advanced form of human knowledge.
■ RECIPE Tags
#HumanBecoming #CulturalTransmission #OriginOfKnowledge #SurvivalToCivilization
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Can survival become culture through a learned tool?
Reason: Fire shifts from possession to transmissible knowledge.
Related Film: The Clan of the Cave Bear - Middle: Does humanity begin when instinct becomes shared technique?
Reason: Bodily survival expands into teaching, imitation, and social memory.
Related Film: 2001: A Space Odyssey - Core: Is civilization born from contact with the other?
Reason: Human development advances through encounter, difference, and incorporation.
Related Film: The New World
■ Secondary Axes
- Species threshold: The human line is shown as a transition between animality and symbolic life.
Related Film: Alpha - Knowledge migration: A tribe changes because a discovered technique returns with the traveler.
Related Film: The Emerald Forest
■ Person
- Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Cast: Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nicholas Kadi, Rae Dawn Chong
■ Structural Tags
#ThresholdBecoming #KnowledgeTransmission #CivilizationContact
■ Attribute Tags
#FrenchCanadianFilm #1981Film #PrehistoricDrama
