Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2002)

Directors:

Zacharias Kunuk

Writers:

Actors:

Felix Alaralak, Alex Uttak, Luke Taqqaugaq, Mary Qulitalik, Apayata Kotierk, Abraham Ulayuruluk

Synopsis:

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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Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2002)

Canada is a great land. Sure it resides under layers of ice, permafrost and dead frozen explorers. Sure it's so innocuous that's it's reknown mainly for its sugar shacks, geese, snowmobiles and Moose. I hope that this movie will be recognized also...
Nougat_Jesus
February 21, 2013