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Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
🎬 Movie

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

2002 · 172 min Fantasy Drama
6.9 / 10 · TMDB

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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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

The director bets on details: a gesture, a glance, a pause. In a good drama this is what says the most — and that principle is upheld here.

Worth watching if you're in the mood for serious cinema. Not background viewing — it demands attention.

For viewers who can watch slow cinema and value the human element in stories.

Director: Zacharias Kunuk

— MovieFinder Editorial

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Viewing atmosphere: In quiet, in the evening. Better alone or with someone who watches films seriously.

🎭 Cast

Natar Ungalaaq

Natar Ungalaaq

Atanarjuat

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Sylvia Ivalu

Atuat

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Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq

Oki

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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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