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The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | October 8, 2006 |
| Running time: | 112 minutes |
| Cast: | Leah Angutimarik, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Kim Bodnia, Jakob Cedergren, Sofie Danielsen |
| Director: | Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk |
| Producer: | Zacharias Kunuk, Elise Lund Larsen, Vibeke Vogel |
| Writer: | Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk |
| Distributor: | Alliance Atlantis |
Description: An epic tragedy set in and around Igloolik in the 1920s, as the last great Inuit shaman and his beautiful and headstrong daughter struggle to survive the sweep of civilization that brought Christianity and commerce to the arctic and irrevocably changed Inuit life. Witnesses to their story are Danish ethnographer and explorer Knud Rasmussen and his traveling companions Therkel Mathiassen and Peter Freuchen.
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