Puffin Season

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 45 min
  • Premiere: 1975. January 1.

This film is about the traditional puffin catch in the Westman Islands and shows the fowlers in action, often performing breathtaking feats in the soaring cliffs to accomplish their goal. Ancient hunting techniques are shown, and the extreme dangers that men faced to secure their livelihood. These techniques have passed on basically unchanged from generation to generation.

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Páll Steingrímsson

Director of Photography

Ernst Rudolf Kettler

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