112 minutes – Drama, Inuit
Language: Inuktitut, Danish, English
Festival release date: September 7, 2006 (Toronto International Film Festival)
Release date: March 11, 2006
Production company: Isuma
Canadian distributor: Alliance Atlantis
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen was inspired by the actual journals of a Danish anthropologist, Knud Rasmussen (Jens Jorn Spottag). Set primarily in and around Igloolik in 1922, the film depicts the encounter between a group of Inuit in Arctic Canada led by one of the last shamans of the Canadian Inuit, Aua, and Rasmussen and two other Danish ethnographers and explorers, Therkel Mathiassen and Peter Freuchen. THey lived with the extended family of the Inuit shaman Avva (Pakak Innukshuk) that included his wife Orulu (Neeve Irngaut Uttak) and, most importantly, his daughter Apak (Leah Angutimarik), who has some of his powers.
Norman Cohn
Zacharias Kunuk
Elise Lund Larsen
Vibeke Vogel
Lucius Barre
Stephane Rituit
Norman Cohn
Zacharias Kunuk
Eugene Ipkarnak
Madeline Ivalu
Herve Paniaq
Pauloosie Qulitalik
Lucy Tulugarjuk
Abraham Ulayuruluk
Louis Uttak
Norman Cohn
Norman Cohn
Cathrine Ambus
Félix Lajeunesse
Zacharias Kunuk
Louis Uttak
Charlotte Bech
Zacharias Kunuk
Pauloosie Qulitalik
Atuat Akkitirq
Micheline Ammaq
Susan Avingaq
Mary Qulitalik
Jan Thrysoe
Lone Thrysoe
Pakak Innuksuk
Leah Angutimarik
Neeve Irngaut
Natar Ungalaaq
Samueli Ammaq
Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq
Catherine Alaralak
Abraham Ulayuruluk
Jens Jørn Spottag
Kim Bodnia
Jakob Cedergren
Tommy Uttak
Apayata Kotierk
Cora Akkitirq
Racheal Uyarasuk
Larry Kangok
Eugene Ipkarnak
Aua
Apak
Orulu
Nuqallaq
Umik
Natar
Kigutikaajuk
Evaluarjuk
Knud Rasmussen
Peter Freuchen
Therkel Mathiassen
Taparte
Anguillianuk
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