Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Feb 01 2002
•3h 52m
•Fantasy, Drama
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.
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Natar Ungalaaq
Atanarjuat
Sylvia Ivalu
Atuat
Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq
Oki
Lucy Tulugarjuk
Puja
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