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Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

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.

Top Cast

  • Natar Ungalaaq

    Natar Ungalaaq

    Atanarjuat

  • Sylvia Ivalu

    Sylvia Ivalu

    Atuat

  • Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq

    Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq

    Oki

  • Lucy Tulugarjuk

    Lucy Tulugarjuk

    Puja

  • Pakak Innuksuk

    Pakak Innuksuk

    Amaqjuaq (as Pakkak Innushuk)

  • Madeline Ivalu

    Madeline Ivalu

    Panikpak

  • Pauloosie Qulitalik

    Pauloosie Qulitalik

    Qulitalik / A shaman (as Paul Qulitalik)

  • Eugene Ipkarnak

    Eugene Ipkarnak

    Sauri, the chief

  • Neeve Irngaut

    Neeve Irngaut

    Uluriaq

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.

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