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The making of "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen"

"The Journals of Knud Rasmussen"Journals of Knud Rasmussen
(2006, 112 min.) CANADA/DENMARK
Director: Zacharias Kunuk (Inuit) and Norman Cohn
Actors: Samuelie Ammaq, Leah Angutimarik, Pakak Innukshuk, Natar Ungalaaq, Neeve Irngaut Uttak
In Inuktitut and Danish with English subtitles.

Drawing from the accounts of Knud Rasmussen, a Danish-Greenlandic Inuit explorer, the coming of Christianity and commerce to the Canadian North is seen through the eyes of the last great shaman of Igloolik and his headstrong daughter.

Image credit: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen; The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

Norman Cohn

Zacharias Kunuk

2007 First Circle Film Festival, Tulsa, Oklahoma

2007 Native Cinema Showcase

2006 Native American Film and Video Festival. Schedule at-a-glance

2006 Special Screenings, DC

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