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Atanarjuat, l'homme rapide

Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner

Date de Sortie: vendredi 12 avril 2002
Genre: Drame

Réalisateur: Zacharias Kunuk
Producteur: Norman Cohn, Paul Apak Angilirq, Zacharias Kunuk
Scénario: Paul Apak Angilirq
Studio: Odeon Films
Durée: 172 min.

Résumé:

After the camp leader is murdered, the new leader Sauri (Ipkarnak) drives his old rival Tulimaq down through mistreatment and ridicule. Years pass and power begins to change when the resentful Tulimaq has two sons -- Amaqjuaq, The Strong One (Innukshuk), and Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner (Ungalaaq). As the camp's best hunters they provoke jealousy and rage in their rival, Oki (Arnatsiaq), the leader's ill-tempered son. When The Fast Runner wins away Oki's promised bride-to-be, the beautiful Atuat (Ivalu), Oki conspires to murder the brothers.

Based on an ancient Inuit legend that takes place in the eastern artic wilderness near Igloolik near the dawn of the first millenium.