It was a France-Canada co-production to expose the life of Inuit natives settlement in far off Canadian northern nearby North Pole, as American movies dealing with their natives as white man's dependency on supplying gun fires, steel traps, alcohol, medicine and mainly trading those valuable furs addressed to American market and Europe as well as displayed in the movie, they bring the famous actors to play the main characters as the Philippine Lou Diamond Philips, the Japanese Toshirô Mifune, Jennifer Tilly, all them has somehow Mongol ancestry, upon this small detail their fit perfect as Inuit people otherwise the British Donald Sutherland as policeman.
Such coexistence at some moment they would enter in clash due inserting the poisoned booze on settlement worsening the things, whereby it gonna happen by a bear's fur got by Agaguk (Diamond Philips) sold by a nasty white trader Brown by his father Chief-shaman boozer Kromaak (Toshiro Mifune) it triggers a natural acrimony between them, Agaguk went to kill Brown for refused get back the fur, all this allied a bad relationship with his lewd father he went away with his girl Igiyook (Jennifer Tilly) whereof the couple tried survived by themselves on ice landscape, therefore it doesn't take too long appears a white policeman asking for Brown's death.
Shadow of the Wolf aside the clashes between natives and white people is underpinned in Iniut's spiritual background where someone empowered with views of future arise at leadership among bravery and others strengths, they also suppose when somebody faces the death and survives becomes in another man itself as exposed on picture, aside some natural mismatches as those artificial sets, the movie doesn't disappoint as the low ratings trie assure, it bring the way of life of this people that ought adjust on a new environment which includes the white man domain, even bad or not!!
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First watch: 1996 / How many: 4 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7.5.
