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Watch: Qivitoq – fjeldgængeren 1956 123movies, Full Movie Online – In this visual masterpiece and first Oscar nominated Danish film, young teacher Eva arriving in Greenland, surprising her fiancée in the arms of a woman. Seeking refuge, she meets a man also carrying a broken heart in the scenic landscape..
Plot: A young teacher, Eva Nygaard, arrives in Greenland from Denmark to surprise her fiance, the Doctor Erik Halsøe, but is crushed to find he has not waited for her and he is about to be married to his assisting nurse. Eva travels to a small fishing village to await the next ship back to Denmark. There she enters into a tense and often confrontational relationship with Jens, a quiet moody Dane who manages a trading company outpost. Meanwhile, Jens is trying to persuade a Greenlander named Pavia to become a company fisherman, despite Pavia’s fear of alienating his fellow villagers and upsetting the spirit, Qivitoq.
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Old, but sweet movie set in Greenland
Greenland is a beautiful setting, and considering the time it was made, it was also an interesting setting politically. The relationship between Greenland and Denmark was, to an extent, the relationship between and colonizer and the colonized. But, as seen in this movie, it was not a hostile relationship. This movie could have easily been one that made fun of Greenland, but the movie tries to be fair with the greenlanders. However, it’s not always successful at this. It seems that the movie suggests that women and greenlanders are about equally irrational, and that the greenlanders are nice, but simple people. If the movie was made today, I’m sure the view would be a bit more nuanced. It was obviously not meant as any ill will from the movie makers, but rather as a product of its time.

The movie itself actually has an interesting love story, combined with a take on the qivitoq-stories from Greenland. Not only do we see a young man deciding on becoming a qivitoq, it can also be related to both the protagonists. The man has escaped from Danish society to be on his own, and the girl also attempts some kind of escape from society.

The highlight of the movie is the nature, though. It has some beautiful shots of Greenland, and actually some impressive stunts on the glaciers.

Wonderful.
The movie is wonderful and it managed to withstand time since it was made in 1956. The movie didn’t only catch the harsh, cold and merciless nature of Greenland but also the wonderful side of it, if you haven’t been in Greenland it’s hard to understand what is so wonderful about it or when you don’t know how the way the inhabitants are/were.

The way the Greenlanders are portrayed couldn’t be more correct, for example before the time Greenlanders stopped being hunters and began to work instead, everybody didn’t see any future in fishing and it’s true in the old days when hunters were humiliated they became “Qivittoq” (correct Greenlandic spelling of “Qivitoq”). Roughly translated to English it would mean “mountain wanderer”. Also the feeling of knowing everyone and having the kind of closeness that is present in the small villages in the movie couldn’t have been more precise, it was like entering my hometown just smaller and more (lot more actually) primitive.

It must have been a nightmare shooting the film on the icecap since it’s quite dangerous and I can’t praise the people enough who made this movie, and even risk limb and life to make this movie. You also get to see a small lonely figure of a kayak between the mighty icebergs, and it must have been quite frightening since like many people say that ice is treacherous.

This movie is an unseen and overlooked masterpiece that was made and forgotten in time. I’m so happy I bought it on DVD since I wanted to see it since quite a long time ago. I also gotta say that this movie is relevant now as it was then since it carries some part of Greenland’s history. For example when Denmark began to “modernize” Greenland and make it more “danish”. Well they succeeded in modernizing Greenland but they did not succeed in making greenlanders “danish”. The movie was mainly made because Denmark wanted to show they are good colonists by “raising” their “children”. The danish being the parents and the greenlanders being the children.

Now you get it, this movie carries a small amount of Greenland’s history and one of the biggest influences on Greenaland.

10/10

Other Information:

Original Language da
Runtime 1 hr 59 min (119 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Drama, Family, Romance
Director Erik Balling
Writer Leck Fischer
Actors Astrid Villaume, Gunnar Lauring, Randi Michelsen
Country Denmark
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
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Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm