Moana

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Documentary

Overview

Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, portraying Samoan village life with a painterly eye. Blending ethnographic detail with a romanticized “Gauguin idyll,” the film celebrates daily rituals, communal traditions, and the passage into adulthood, suffused with what Flaherty called “pride of beauty, pride of strength.”

Keywords

1920s
polynesia
samoa
indigenous
dance ritual
polynesian
docufiction
rite of passage
native
south seas
tattooing
manhood
marriage rite
coconut
oceania
ethnographic film
tattoo art
indigenous tribes
polynesian island

Details

Status: Released
Release date: January 7, 1926
Original language: English
Countries: United States of America
Production: Robert Flaherty Productions Inc.
Cast: Ta'avale,Fa'amgase,Tama,T'ugaita,Pe'a,Leupenga
Director: Robert Flaherty,Frances H. Flaherty
Writer: Julian Johnson,Frances H. Flaherty,Robert Flaherty
Producer: Frances H. Flaherty,Robert Flaherty,Jesse L. Lasky,Adolph Zukor
Cinematography: Bob Roberts,Robert Flaherty
Music: James C. Bradford
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0017162