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Title Atanarjuat = The fast runner / Igloolik Isuma Productions presents a National Film Board of Canada co-production ; producers, Paul Apak Angilirq, Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk ; writer, Paul Apak Angilirq ; director, Zacharias Kunuk.

Publication Info. Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2003.
©2002

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Video  PN1997.A23 F377 2003    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition Widescreen version (1.85:1).
Description 1 DVD (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
Dolby digital 5.1
video file
region 1
System Details DVD, 5.1 Dolby digital, Region 1 encoding.
Cast Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Madeline Ivalu, Pauloosie Qulitalik, Eugene Ipkarnak, Pakak Innuksuk.
Credits Director of photography, Norman Cohn ; editors, Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn, Marie-Christine Sarda ; original music, Chris Crilly ; design, James Ungalaaq.
Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.
Audience MPAA rating: R; for some sexuality/nudity and violence.
Form Also issued on VHS.
Summary A small nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman. When Atanarjuat falls in love with a woman already promised to the son of the clan's leader, he has to fight for her. She is won by Atanarjuat and the leader plots to attack him in his sleep. Escaping, he sets off running across the ice, embarking on a harrowing adventure of survival in the brutal wilderness. He returns stronger and wiser to reclaim his life and stop the curse that has divided his people.
Note Special features: theatrical trailers.
Language Inuktitut dialogue, English subtitles.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Subject Indians -- Social life and customs -- Drama.
Indians -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships.
Wilderness survival -- Drama.
Wilderness survival.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Added Author Angilirq, Paul Apak, 1954-1998.
Cohn, Norman.
Kunuk, Zacharias.
Ungalaq, Natar, 1959-
Ivalu, Sylvia.
Arnatsiaq, Peter Henry.
Tulugarjuk, Lucy.
Ivalu, Madeline.
Qulitalik, Pauloosie.
Ipkarnak, Eugene.
Innuksuk, Pakak.
Sarda, Marie-Christine.
Crilly, Chris.
Ungalaaq, James.
Igloolik Isuma Productions.
National Film Board of Canada.
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
Added Title Fast runner
ISBN 1404923039
Standard No. 043396002357
Music No. 00235 Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment