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Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 00235 | Columbia Tristar Home EntertainmentLanguage: Inuktitut Summary language: engfre Publication details: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, c2002.Edition: Widescreen version (1.85:1)Description: 1 videodisc (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1404923039
Uniform titles:
  • Atanarjuat (Motion picture)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 251
LOC classification:
  • VIDEO PN 1997.2 .A83 2002
Production credits:
  • Photography, Norman Cohn ; editors, Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn, Marie-Christine Sarda ; original music, Chris Crilly.
Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Pauloosie Qulitalik, Madeline Ivalu, Eugene Ipkarnak, Pakak Innuksuk.Summary: Film explores the universal themes of love, revenge and survival. When a small, nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman, the curse is still felt years later. Atanarjuat falls in love with Atuat, a woman already promised to the son of the clan's leader. In a fight, she is won by Atanarjuat causing vengeful clan leader Oki to plot to attack Atanarjuat and his brother in their sleep. Atanarjuat manages to escape and sets off running across the ice, embarking on a harrowing adventure to survive in the brutal wilderness. His journey ends when he returns, stronger and wiser, to reclaim his life and stop the curse that has divided his people.
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VID VID Chamberlin Free Public Library Video DVD FAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000539639

Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.

Photography, Norman Cohn ; editors, Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn, Marie-Christine Sarda ; original music, Chris Crilly.

Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Pauloosie Qulitalik, Madeline Ivalu, Eugene Ipkarnak, Pakak Innuksuk.

Film explores the universal themes of love, revenge and survival. When a small, nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman, the curse is still felt years later. Atanarjuat falls in love with Atuat, a woman already promised to the son of the clan's leader. In a fight, she is won by Atanarjuat causing vengeful clan leader Oki to plot to attack Atanarjuat and his brother in their sleep. Atanarjuat manages to escape and sets off running across the ice, embarking on a harrowing adventure to survive in the brutal wilderness. His journey ends when he returns, stronger and wiser, to reclaim his life and stop the curse that has divided his people.

Rated R.

DVD.

In Inuktitut, with English and French subtitles.

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