After the filming of Nanuk in the North was completed, what was the cause of Nanuk's death?

After the filming of Nanuke in the North was completed, Nanuke died in a deer-hunting operation; Because of the cold weather, the Nanuke family starved to death in the following winter because they didn't store enough food. When shooting, the roof of the igloo was cut off in order to determine the shooting range. In addition, Nanuk himself consumed a lot of physical strength during shooting, which led to illness and death.

In Nanuke in the North, Flahadi aims to show the audience a picture of primitive life that deviates from the industrial society. In the case of low productivity, human beings are weak. Human beings have to fight against nature just to survive. Flahadi is even called an idealist. In order to achieve enough "primitive ecology", he even asked fishermen and hunters to hunt in the way of their parents, even though they already had more advanced methods.

Comments on Nanook in the North:

Nanook in the North shows the fortitude, tenacity and erin brockovich of Eskimos living in Hudson Bay in the north of the United States in the face of harsh living environment. From the perspective of film history, Flahadi boldly used unprofessional actors to create a real documentary in the film, which is the first in the history of world documentary films, and it provides long-lens photography and follow-up shooting experience for future documentary film creation.

From the perspective of cultural anthropology, Nanook in the North is a film full of paradoxes. The images of Eskimos represented by Nanook in front of people are not completely primitive and barbaric as theorists think, but they are intelligent and tenacious.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Nanuk in the North