The Price of a Story
A rich Czech tourist and his translator come to an Inuit shaman – an Angakkoq.The meeting, arranged at a local museum, is to discuss a legendary encounter between the Angakkoq’s ancestors with the ancestors of the Czech tourist.The foreigner is willing to pay a lot of money for the story.
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A rich Czech tourist and his translator come to an Inuit shaman – an Angakkoq. The meeting, arranged at a local museum, is to discuss a legendary encounter between the Angakkoq’s ancestors with the ancestors of the Czech tourist. The foreigner is willing to pay a lot of money for the story. The shaman’s evocative narration brings to life a fictional story from the time of the first Christian missionaries in Greenland. This short film about the clash of different cultures and mentalities is the first Czech-Greenlandic co-production.
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- Release date
- Feb 29, 2024
- Runtime
- 0h 16m
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- Country
- Czech Republic, Greenland
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