Quest for Fire, a French-Canadian adventure film written by Jean-Jacques Annaud, is set in which European era?
Quest for Fire (film) Quest for Fire (French: La Guerre du feu ) is a 1981 French-Canadian adventure film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, written by Gérard Brach and starring Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nameer El-Kadi and Rae Dawn Chong. It is a film adaptation of the 1911 homonymous Belgian novel by J.-H. Rosny. The story is set in Paleolithic Europe (80,000 years ago), with its plot surrounding the struggle for control of fire by early humans. It won the Academy Award for Makeup.
Coureur des bois A coureur des bois (] ) or coureur de bois (] , "runner of the woods"; plural: coureurs de bois) was an independent entrepreneurial French-Canadian woodsman who traveled in New France and the interior of North America. They ventured into the woods usually to trade various European items for furs, and along the way they learned the trades and practices of the Native people. These expeditions were fuelled by the beginning of the fur trade in the North American interior. Trade began with coat beaver, but as the market grew "coureurs de bois" were trapping and trading prime beavers to be felted in Europe.