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6.6

34 Reviews

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.”

Cast

  • Ta'avale

  • Fa'amgase

  • Tama

  • T'ugaita

  • Pe'a

  • Leupenga

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