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Off-Ramp

No dialogue ... just acting.

Ron Perlman and Nameer El-Kadi at the Mohn Broadcast Center, 1/19/2011.
Ron Perlman and Nameer El-Kadi at the Mohn Broadcast Center, 1/19/2011.
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John Rabe
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About the Show

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.

Funding provided by:

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Jean-Jacques Annaud's "Quest for Fire" is an actor's film. Ron Perlman and Nameer El-Kadi say their first movie was also the hardest movie shoot they've ever been on. The locations - Kenya, Scotland, Canada - were brutal, makeup consumed hours every day, filming took a year, and acting without dialogue took everything they had. But in this exclusive Off-Ramp interview, Perlman and El-Kadi also say Quest for Fire, now thirty years old, was also one of the most rewarding films they've made ... and it's the one their colleagues always ask about.

CLICK THROUGH for "Quest for Fire 2," John Rabe's sequel, starring Perlman and El-Kadi.