

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Visit website7.0/10 • 69
2002-02-01 • 2h 52m
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.
- Directors
- Zacharias Kunuk
- Writters
- Paul Apak Angilirq, Pauloosie Qulitalik, Zacharias Kunuk, Herve Paniaq, Norman Cohn
- Editors
- Paul Apak Angilirq, Pauloosie Qulitalik, Zacharias Kunuk, Herve Paniaq, Marie-Christine Sarda

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Visit website2002-02-01 • 2h 52m
7.0/10 • 69
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.
- Directors
- Zacharias Kunuk
- Writters
- Paul Apak Angilirq, Pauloosie Qulitalik, Zacharias Kunuk, Herve Paniaq, Norman Cohn
- Editors
- Paul Apak Angilirq, Pauloosie Qulitalik, Zacharias Kunuk, Herve Paniaq, Marie-Christine Sarda
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsNatar Ungalaaq
Atanarjuat
Sylvia Ivalu
Atuat
Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq
Oki
Lucy Tulugarjuk
Puja
Pakak Innuksuk
Amaqjuaq (as Pakkak Innushuk)
Madeline Ivalu
Panikpak
Pauloosie Qulitalik
Qulitalik / A shaman (as Paul Qulitalik)
Eugene Ipkarnak
Sauri, the chief
Neeve Irngaut
Uluriaq
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- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- iu
- Budget
- $1,934,000.00
- Revenue
- $3,786,801.00
- Keywords
- jealousysibling relationshipinuitnative americanarctic polar circle regionevil spiritrevengedog sledigloobased on myths, legends or folklore