Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

Feb 1, 2002

2h 52m

★ 6.9

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.

Genres

Fantasy

Drama

Production Companies

Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc.

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner Trailers

Cast

Atanarjuat

Natar Ungalaaq

Atuat

Sylvia Ivalu

Oki

Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq

Puja

Lucy Tulugarjuk

Amaqjuaq (as Pakkak Innushuk)

Pakak Innuksuk

Panikpak

Madeline Ivalu

Qulitalik / A shaman (as Paul Qulitalik)

Pauloosie Qulitalik

Sauri, the chief

Eugene Ipkarnak

Uluriaq

Neeve Irngaut

Tungajuaq

Abraham Ulayuruluk

Kumaglak

Apayata Kotierk

Niriuniq

Mary Qulitalik

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