Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

2h 52m 2002 Fantasy, Drama Canada
Budget: $1,934,000 Revenue: $3,786,801

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

Writer

Paul Apak Angilirq, Pauloosie Qulitalik, Zacharias Kunuk, Herve Paniaq, Norman Cohn