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Moana (1926)

Moana (1926)

Documentary
Release Date: 1926, January 7
Directors: Robert Flaherty, Frances H. Flaherty
Countries: United States of America, Samoa
Production: Robert Flaherty Productions Inc.
Cast: Tama, Fa'amgase, Pe'a, Ta'avale, T'ugaita, Leupenga

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.”

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