> When Atanarjuat wins away Oki's promised wife-to-be, the beautiful
> Atuat, in a head punching competition
Now that's what I call great cinema.
Seriously, the movie sounds fascinating, and reminds me of the Tibetan film _The Horse Thief_, which also featured a non-professional native cast. I don't remember the plot all that well (typical for me, I'm afraid), but I do remember that you get to see a lot of interesting Tibetan customs, including rather extreme-to-Westerners ones such as "sky burial" (i.e., leaving corpses out for the vultures) and animal sacrifice (by literal burial). There's probably some good campaign ideas in there...
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