Peter Freuchen portrayed inaccurately in Isuma movie

My daughter Bronwyn and I went to see the new movie by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen at its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and I feel compelled to make a public comment on one aspect of the film.

Bronwyn and I were disappointed in the rather inaccurate portrayal of Peter Freuchen, my grandfather.

In the movie he is short, unable to speak Inuktitut, and is called a drunkard.

In actual fact, he was six-foot-five, spoke Greenlandic and Inuktitut fluently, and never drank in his life.

I leave commentary on the rest of the movie to others, and we wish Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn all success.

Peter Freuchen Ittinuar
Toronto