Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

Release Date: 2002-02-01
Language: IU
Country: 🇨🇦 CA
Rating: ⭐ 7.0 / 10 ( 74 votes )
Runtime: 2h 52m

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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Cast

Natar Ungalaaq
Natar Ungalaaq
Atanarjuat
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Sylvia Ivalu
Atuat
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Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq
Oki
Lucy Tulugarjuk
Lucy Tulugarjuk
Puja
Pakak Innuksuk
Pakak Innuksuk
Amaqjuaq (as Pakkak Innushuk)
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Madeline Ivalu
Panikpak
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Pauloosie Qulitalik
Qulitalik / A shaman (as Paul Qulitalik)
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Eugene Ipkarnak
Sauri, the chief
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Neeve Irngaut
Uluriaq
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Abraham Ulayuruluk
Tungajuaq
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Apayata Kotierk
Kumaglak
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Mary Qulitalik
Niriuniq

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