The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006)

Directed by

Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk

Genre

drama film

Country

Denmark, Canada

Runtime

1h 52m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the 1920s, an explorer documents Inuit shamans and their spiritual practices in the Canadian Arctic. The film follows the tension between ancient traditions and the encroaching outside world.

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What happens

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen is a 2006 Canadian-Danish film directed by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn. The film is about the pressures on traditional Inuit shamanistic beliefs as documented by Knud Rasmussen during his travels across the Canadian Arctic in the 1920s. Produced by Isuma, the film premiered on September 7, 2006 as the opening film of the Toronto International Film Festival, after pre-release screenings in Inuit communities in Canada and Greenland. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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