23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

F.W. Murnau

USA

1931, 86'

The last film by German director F.W. Murnau, it was produced by Robert Flaherty, in turn responsible for Nanook of the North (1922), the first successful feature-length documentary in American cinemas. This film is divided into two parts, “Paradise” and “Paradise Lost”, showing the experience of a couple on a Polynesian island, colonized and explored by western France.

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Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

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