The fast runner / Lot 47 Films ; Igloolik Isuma Productions presents a National Film Board of Canada co-production ; screenplay, Paul Apak Angilirq ; producers, Paul Apak Angilirq, Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk ; director, Zacharias Kunuk.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Kunuk, Zacharias, producer, director.
• Angilirq, Paul Apak, 1954-1998, screenwriter, producer.
• Cohn, Norman, producer.
• Ungalaq, Natar, 1959- actor.
• Ivalu, Sylvia, actor.
• Arnatsiaq, Peter Henry, actor.
• Tulugarjuk, Lucy, actor.
• Ipkarnak, Eugene, actor.
• Crilly, Chris, composer.
• Lot 47 Films (Firm), producer.
• Igloolik Isuma Productions, producer.
• National Film Board of Canada, producer.
• Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm), distributor.

Language:

• English
• Inuktitut

Subjects (All):

• Inuit--Social life and customs--Drama.
• Man-woman relationships--Drama.
• Man-woman relationships.
• Wilderness survival.
• Inuit--Social life and customs.
• Inuit.
• Wilderness survival--Drama.
• Feature films.
• Motion pictures, Canadian.

Genre:

• Drama.
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
• Feature films.
• Motion pictures, Canadian.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 videodisc (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
• polychrome

Edition:

Widescreen version.

Other Title:

Atanarjuat

Place of Publication:

Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2003]

Language Note:

• In Inuktitut dialogue with English subtitles.
• Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

System Details:

• DVD; Dolby Digital 5.1.
• digital
• optical
• Dolby digital 5.1
• video file
• DVD video

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 break the curse that has divided his people.

Participant:

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.

Notes:

• Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.
• Special features: theatrical trailers, interactive menus, scene selections.

ISBN:

1404923039

OCLC:

51584446

Publisher Number:

• 043396002357
• 00235 Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment