After completing “Atanarjuat The Fast Runner,” set in the
mythological past in a community whose balance of life had not changed
for 4,000 years, Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn chose to depict a
series of events that took place in 1922, when Shamanism was replaced
by Christianity – and the balance of life was changed forever. Kunuk
was inspired to make the film for “a first audience that… Read more
