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.
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Natar Ungalaaq as Atanarjuat
Sylvia Ivalu as Atuat
Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq as Oki
Lucy Tulugarjuk as Puja
Pakak Innuksuk as Amaqjuaq (as Pakkak Innushuk)
Madeline Ivalu as Panikpak
Pauloosie Qulitalik as Qulitalik / A shaman (as Paul Qulitalik)
Eugene Ipkarnak as Sauri, the chief
Neeve Irngaut as Uluriaq
Abraham Ulayuruluk as Tungajuaq
Apayata Kotierk as Kumaglak
Mary Qulitalik as Niriuniq
Luke Taqqaugaq as Pittiulak
Alex Uttak as Pakak
Felix Alaralak as Tulimaq
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