What was the cause of Nanuk's death after the filming of Nanuk in the north was completed?

After the filming of Nanuke in the North was completed, Nanuke's death was as follows: he died in a deer hunting operation; Due to 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 to determine the shooting range. In addition, Nanuk himself consumed a lot of physical strength during the filming process, which led to illness and death.

In Nanuk in the north, Flahadi tried to show the audience the original appearance of life that deviated from the industrial society. In the case of low productivity, human beings are weak. In order to survive, human beings have to fight against nature. 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, although they already had more advanced methods.

Comment on Nanuk in the North:

Nanook in the North shows the fortitude, tenacity and erin brockovich spirit 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 time in the history of documentary in the world. It provides long-lens photography and subsequent shooting experience for future documentary creation.

From the perspective of cultural anthropology, Nanak in the North is a film full of paradoxes. The image of Eskimo, represented by Nanak, presented to people is not completely primitive and savage as theorists think, but intelligent and tenacious.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Nanuk in the North