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Star of acclaimed Inuit-language film shoots polar bear in self-defense

Published: October 12, 2012

Atanarjuat (Natar Ungalaaq, left) and his brother Amaqjuaq (Pakkak Inukshuk) in the 2001 movie "Atanarjuat,'' or "The Fast Runner,'' based on an age-old Eskimo folk take, the first feature film produced in the Inuit language and made by an almost entirely Inuit cast and crew. "The Fast Runner'' captures the movement of the seasons above the Arctic Circle and the ways climate and the migratory patterns of animals influenced the traditional Inuit way of life.

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A star of the 2001 Inuit movie "Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)" shot and killed a polar bear he said was looking through a window into his cabin in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, reports CBC News.

Natar Ungalaaq ... said on Wednesday that he woke to an alarming sight — a bear was staring into his cabin. ...

"I had an experience of shooting that bear you know, almost naked you know. The last movie that I was [in I was] all naked but this time I had to use shorts to get out from my bed and shoot that bear, but last night I was not smiling," he said.

He is referring to a scene in the movie in which he runs naked on bleeding feet over Arctic snow and ice to escape a killer.

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