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.
Writer: Paul Apak Angilirq, Pauloosie Qulitalik, Herve Paniaq, Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn
Director: Zacharias Kunuk
Producer: Norman Cohn, Paul Apak Angilirq, Zacharias Kunuk, Sally Bochner, Germaine Ying Gee Wong
Director of Photography: Norman Cohn
Atanarjuat
Atuat
Oki
Puja
Amaqjuaq (as Pakkak Innushuk)
Panikpak
Qulitalik / A shaman (as Paul Qulitalik)
Sauri, the chief
Atanarjuat - Die Legende vom schnellen Läufer (Trailer Englisch)