Rent Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
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1h 23min
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- Synopsis:
In 1929, F. W. Mufnau, one of the greatest of all film directors, invited leading documentarist Robert Flaherty to collaborate on a film to be shot on location in Tahiti, a Polynesian idyll in which Murnau imagined a cast of island actors would provide a new form of authentic drama and offer rare insight into their "primitive" culture. The result of their collaboration was Tabu, a film that depicts the details of indigenous island life to tell a mythical tale that is rich in the universal themes of desire and loss. Subtitled "A Story of the South Seas", Tabu concerns a Tahitian fisherman and his love for a young woman whose body has been consecrated to the gods, rendering her tabu as far as mortal men are concerned. The lovers flee their island and its restrictive traditions, but will their love prevail in the "civilised" world? - Actors:
- Anne Chevalier, Matahi, Hitu, Bill Bambridge, Ah Fong, Jules
- Directors:
- F.W. Murnau
- Producers:
- Robert J. Flaherty, F.W. Murnau
- Writers:
- F.W. Murnau, Robert J. Flaherty
- Others:
- Floyd Crosby
- Studio:
- Eureka
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- 100 Years of German Expressionism, A History of Cinemas in Films, Masters of Cinema, Roger Corman's Poe Cycle, The Last Laugh: The Film That Changed Cinema, Top 10 Best Last Films: World Cinema
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 24/06/2013
- Run Time:
- 86 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Luciano Berriatua 75th anniversary restoration of the pre-Paramount, longer Murnau-approved version of the film, with uncensored scenes and titlecards, appearing in its original 1.19:1 aspect ratio for the first time
- Full-length commentary track by R. Dixon Smith and Brad Stevens
- 15-minute German documentary about Tabu by Luciano Berriatua
- Newly presented outtakes from the original shoot of the film
- 'Treibjagd in der Siidsee' (short subject from 1940 depicting a South Seas fishing hunt, created from unused material from the filming of Tabu)
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