Moana

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.”

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

98 min

Actor:

Ta'avale, Fa'amgase, Tama

Quality:

HD

Director:

Robert Flaherty, Frances H. Flaherty

Release:

1926

Country:

United States of America, Samoa

IMDb:

6.7