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6.7Robert 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.”
Released: 1926-01-0798 minDir: Robert FlahertyDocumentary
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Cast
- Ta'avale as Moana
- Fa'amgase as Moana's Fiancé
- Tama as Moana's Father
- T'ugaita as Moana's Mother
- Pe'a as Moana's Younger Brother
- Leupenga as Moana's Older Brother
Themes
- south seas
- indigenous
- coconut
- tattooing
- samoa
- polynesia
- rite of passage
- polynesian
- oceania
- 1920s
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Ratings
IMDb
6.8/10
767 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
87%
- Year
- 1926
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Genres
- Documentary
- Rated
- Not Rated
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 60
- FilmAffinity ID
- 958334
- Image
- Moana wedding.jpg
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- publication date
- 1926-00-00
- title
- Moana
- Commons category
- Moana (1926 film)
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Connections
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London
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Samoa
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International Standard Book Number
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IMDb
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Samoan
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Paramount Pictures
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silent film
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OCLC, Inc.
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Jean Renoir
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Oxford University Press
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silver nitrate
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American Film Institute
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Savai'i
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Broussonetia papyrifera
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Polynesians
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nitrocellulose
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National Archives and Records Administration
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Robert J. Flaherty
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Categories
1926 American films1926 documentary films1926 filmsAmerican black-and-white filmsAmerican docufiction filmsAmerican documentary filmsAmerican silent drama filmsAmerican silent feature filmsAnthropology documentary filmsBlack-and-white documentary filmsDocumentary films about OceaniaEthnofiction filmsFilms directed by Robert FlahertyFilms set in SamoaFilms shot in SamoaParamount Pictures filmsSamoan words and phrasesTemplate film date with 1 release date