Based off of an oral tradition almost 500 years old, this movie begins with the song and spiritual duel between a shaman and camp leader, who suddenly falls dead, thus initiating a curse which will plague the camp with bad luck and ill-will for years.
Based off of an oral tradition almost 500 years old, this movie begins with the song and spiritual duel between a shaman and camp leader, who suddenly falls dead, thus initiating a curse which will plague the camp with bad luck and ill-will for years. The main character, who is the son of a man disgraced by the curse, wins the right to marry his first wife via a head- punching duel at a feast. However, this marriage is sullied by his acquisition of a second wife while on the hunt, and after he beats her for not working enough, she flees to his rival Oki, who vows revenge. Having gathered a gang of allies, Oki attempts to murder the main character, although he escapes from his tent naked and unharmed, and proceeds to outrun them across the ice, even managing to leap across a broad hole with help from the spirit of a man who will eventually help him to recover in hiding. While away, Oki seizes leadership of the camp, but the main character overpowers them, and Qulitalik defeats the shaman to restore order in, FTP, what Inuit film about a legendary ‘fast runner', Canada's top-grossing film for 2002?
Based off of an oral tradition almost 500 years old, this movie begins with the song and spiritual duel between a shaman and camp leader, who suddenly falls dead, thus initiating a curse which will plague the camp with bad luck and ill-will for years.
{Atanarjuat}: The Fast Runner