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Comment by urubu

The English title is 'Quest for Fire'.

There are actually two distinct languages (a kind of Proto-Proto-Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Proto-Proto-Uralic) spoken in the movie, created by Anthony Burgess. He later wrote an essay (the title of which escapes me ATM) about the thinking behind it.

Some background: https://www.anthonyburgess.org/quest-for-fire/about-quest-fo...

parent urubu 2 years ago

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