Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
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This film, the first feature-length Inuit-speaking drama ever made, tells the story of two brothers – Atanarjuat (Ungalaaq) and Amaqjuaq (Innukshuk) – who provoke Okai (Arnatsiaq), an ill-tempered husband-to-be of the beautiful Ataut (Ivalu). When Atuat decides to marry Atanarjuat instead, it sets in motion a chain of events that eventually leads to betrayal and murder. Despite being shot on digital video, Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) is epic – even Shakespearean – in scope, culminating in an astounding twenty-minute sequence as Atanarjuat races naked across melting ice flows, pursued by the murderous Okai. An authentic recreation by Zacharias Kunuk of an oral tale told over thousands of years, the film demystifies the exotic, otherworldly Aboriginal stereotype by telling a powerful, universal story. It was given Genie Awards for Picture, Director, Screenplay, Editing, and Musical Score. It also won the Claude Jutra Award for first-time feature directors, and won a Caméra D'Or at Cannes.
Northernstars.ca chose Atanarjuat as one of its Top 10 Canadian Films of the Decade in December 2009.
172 minutes
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Sally Bochner
Paul Apak Angilirq
Norman Cohn
Zacharias Kunuk
Germaine Wong
Zacharias Kunuk
Paul Apak Angilirq
Norman Cohn
Zacharias Kunuk
Herve Paniaq
Pauloosie Qulitalik
Norman Cohn
Norman Cohn
Zacharias Kunuk
Marie-Christine Sarda
Chris Crilly
Atanarjuat
Atuat, wife of Atanarjuat
Oki
Puja
Panikpak
Qulitalik / A shaman
Sauri, the chief
Amaqjuaq
Uluriaq
Tungajuaq
Kumaglak
Niriuniq
Pittiulak
Pakak
Young Sauri
Young Tulimaq
Young Pittaluk
Young Panikpak
Young Qulitalik
Sauri's wife
Young Sauri's wife
Young Qulitalik's wife
Sigluk
Asa
Uttuqiaq
Saku
Tulimaq
Pittaluk
Oki's wife
Pittiulak's wife
Young Sigluk
Young Sigluk's wife
Young Uttuqiaq
Young Uttuqiaq's wife
Qillaq
Elder lady
Elder lady
Child Kigutikaajuk
Child Kumaglak
Child Amaqjuat
Child Oki
Baby Atanarjuat
Child
Child
Child
Child
Child
Child
Child
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