Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch each other until one was unconscious, made love on the way to the caribou hunt, ate walrus meat and lit their igloos with seal-oil lamps.
as Atanarjuat
as Atuat
as Oki
as Puja
as Amaqjuaq (as Pakkak Innushuk)
as Panikpak
as Qulitalik / A shaman (as Paul Qulitalik)
as Sauri, the chief
as Uluriaq
as Tungajuaq
as Kumaglak
as Niriuniq
as Pittiulak
as Pakak
as Tulimaq
