Film · Drama, Fantasy
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2002)
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.
- Director
- Zacharias Kunuk
- Writers
- Paul Apak Angilirq, Pauloosie Qulitalik, Herve Paniaq
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- Inuktitut
- Release date
- February 1, 2002
- Original title
- ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦ
Cast
Natar UngalaaqAtanarjuat- Sylvia IvaluAtuat
- Peter-Henry ArnatsiaqOki
- Lucy TulugarjukPuja
Pakak InnuksukAmaqjuaq (as Pakkak Innushuk)- Madeline IvaluPanikpak
- Pauloosie QulitalikQulitalik / A shaman (as Paul Qulitalik)
- Eugene IpkarnakSauri, the chief
- Neeve IrngautUluriaq
- Abraham UlayurulukTungajuaq
- Apayata KotierkKumaglak
- Mary QulitalikNiriuniq
- Luke TaqqaugaqPittiulak
- Alex UttakPakak
- Felix AlaralakTulimaq
