Overview
In the South Seas, Samoan village life is portrayed 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 pride of beauty and pride of strength.
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Setting
Set in Insular Oceania
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Robert J. Flaherty
Details
- Directors
- Writers
- Julian JohnsonWriter
- Frances H. FlahertyScreenplay
- Robert FlahertyScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 7, 1926
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America, Samoa
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In the United States
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