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Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2002)

R ★ 6.9/10 172 min Fantasy, Drama Canada IU
Streaming: Not available

Description

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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Top Cast

Natar Ungalaaq
Natar Ungalaaq Atanarjuat
Sylvia Ivalu Atuat
Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq Oki
Lucy Tulugarjuk Puja
Pakak Innuksuk
Pakak Innuksuk Amaqjuaq (as Pakkak Innushuk)
Madeline Ivalu Panikpak
Pauloosie Qulitalik Qulitalik / A shaman (as Paul Qulitalik)
Eugene Ipkarnak Sauri, the chief

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