Qaamarngup uummataa (1998)

Director:

Jacob Grønlykke

Writers:

Jacob Grønlykke (writer)
Hans Anthon Lynge (writer)

Release Date:

25 January 1998 (Greenland)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Suicide | Greenland | Death Of Son

Awards:

3 wins

Cast

Rasmus Lyberth	...	Rasmus
Vivi Nielsen	...	Marie
Niels Platow	...	Mikael Berthelsen
Kenneth Rasmussen	...	Simon
Knud Petersen
Laila Rasmussen	...	Karina
Agga Olsen	...	Magdalene
Nukâka	...	Trommedanser (as Nukâka Motzfeldt)
Jens Davidsen	...	Præst
Henrik Larsen	...	VVS Mand
Søren Hauch-Fausbøll	...	Værtshusgæst
Asger Reher	...	Politichef
Karina Skands	...	Pige i Telt
Julie Carlsen	...	Pige i Telt
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Anda Kristensen

Also Known As:

Heart of Light (USA)
Lysets hjerte (Denmark)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Greenland | Denmark | Norway | Sweden

Language:

Danish | Greenlandic

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Filming Locations:

Greenland

Company:

ASA Film Produktion ApS

Quotes:

[subtitled version]
Marie: [Rasmus is preparing to leave town] Did you talk to your son?
Rasmus: I went there. I can see why he despises me.
Marie: You can't go till you've made up with your son.
Rasmus: I can only make up with him if I go. My soul is so sick that I can be nobody's father.

Self discovery in the white washed mountains of Greenland.

The Danes come to town and take over the Inuit's culture, altering them to a town of drunks with no sense of direction. The town's main chief drunk Rasmsu, falls victim to the destruction of modern change when his son goes on a killing spree and then turns the rifle on himself. Rasmus falls apart and journeys on a spiritual quest to find his ancestral way of living as he runs into the white washed mountains of Greenland. It is here that the widescreen works with the barren cold landscape being the backdrop for Rasmu's self discovery. The photography and music cover the structural gaps in this tale that is worth seeing on the big screen.