Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦ
Directed by Zacharias Kunuk
February 1, 20022h 52m
Overview
Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch each other until one was unconscious, made love on the way to the caribou hunt, ate walrus meat and lit their igloos with seal-oil lamps.
Writers
Paul Apak Angilirq, Zacharias Kunuk, Herve Paniaq, Pauloosie Qulitalik, Norman Cohn
Cast
- Natar UngalaaqAtanarjuat
- Sylvia IvaluAtuat
- Peter-Henry ArnatsiaqOki
- Lucy TulugarjukPuja
- Pakak InnuksukAmaqjuaq (as Pakkak Innushuk)
- Madeline IvaluPanikpak
- Pauloosie QulitalikQulitalik / A shaman (as Paul Qulitalik)
- Eugene IpkarnakSauri, the chief
- Neeve IrngautUluriaq
- Abraham UlayurulukTungajuaq
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