The great silent director F.W. Murnau (SUNRISE) collaborated with famed documentarian Robert Flaherty (NANOOK OF THE NORTH ) on TABU, a visually beautiful story of doomed lovers in the South Seas.
On the Tahitian island of Bora-Bora, a young pearl diver named Matahi is in love with a beautiful maiden named Reri. Their idyllic life together, spent swimming, fishing, and dancing, comes to a halt when the chief of the neighboring island of Fanuma sends a warrior named Hitu to proclaim that
Reri has been named as the successor to the island's sacred virgin and that she is now taboo to all men. Any man who breaks the taboo and touches her will be put to death. Hitu t...
Released:
1931
Rated:
NR
Length:
81 mins