Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

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Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦDIRECTED BYZacharias Kunuk172mins2002

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.

Other films by Zacharias Kunuk

One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk
Wrong Husband
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
The Shaman's Apprentice

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