Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)

7.9	Listal rating
7.3	IMDB rating

Directed by

Zacharias Kunuk

Starring (View all)

Natar Ungalaaq

Atanarjuat

Sylvia Ivalu

Atuat

Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq

Oki

Lucy Tulugarjuk

Puja

Madeline Ivalu

Panikpak

Pauloosie Qulitalik

Qulitalik / A shaman

Eugene Ipkarnak

Sauri, the chief

Pakak Innuksuk

Amaqjuaq

Written by (View all)

Paul Apak Angilirq

Norman Cohn

additional writer

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Description: Canada's Arctic North at the dawn of the first millenium. Evil in the form of an unknown shaman divides a small community of nomadic Inuit, upsetting it's balance and spirit. Twenty years pass. Two brothers emerge to challenge the evil order: Amaqjuaq the Strong One and Atanarjuat The Fast Runner. Atanarjuat wins the hand of lovely ... (more)

Release date : 1 February 2002
UPC: 043396002357

Inuit (2), Arthouse (2), (1), World Cinema (1), Sort (1), Spiritual Cinema (1), SnP (1), 2001 (1), Canada (1), S (1)

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" I remember the film created a powerful sense of the strange arctic environment of the Inuit and of their traditional lifeways. I believe a great deal of human nature, mental and physical, may be learned from pre-agricultural peoples. So I have an underlying curiosity about the human and natural environment in which the film is shot. And there seems to be an emphasis on realism in this drama, at least until the most memorable sequence plays out near the end, the little legend of the ice run. Pa"

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"Directed by Zacharias Kunuk A masterpiece from visionary filmmaker Kunuk in his feature film debut, the first official film in movie history to consist entirely of a real life Inuit cast, and in the Inuit dialect. Taken strait from a true life ancient Inuit folklore story passed down from generation to generation, Kunuk successfully brings it to life in vivid detail and extraordinary epic scale and cinematic intensity. Personally I think this a bold new experiment in directing movies in an exci"