
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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