Summary
On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.Additional Information
| Subjects |
Tahitians
-- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama. Pearl divers -- Drama. Love -- Drama. Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- Drama. Bora-Bora (French Polynesia) -- Drama. Romance films. Action and adventure films. Feature films. Fiction films. |
| Publisher | New York, NY :2015 |
| Edition | Fullscreen. |
| Other Titles | Story of the South Seas |
| Contributors |
Murnau, F. W.
(Friedrich Wilhelm), 1888-1931, film director, screenwriter. Flaherty, Robert Joseph, 1884-1951, screenwriter. Riesenfeld, Hugo, 1879-1939, composer. Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, production company. Kino Classics (Firm), publisher. Kino Lorber, Inc., publisher. |
| Other Contributors |
Photography, Floyd Crosby ; musical setting, Hugo Riesenfeld. |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1931. Special features: The language of shadows: Tabu, a 15-minute documentary by Luciano Berriatúa on the making and restoration of the film ; Tabu: takes & outtakes, 26 minutes of previously unseen sequences, assembled by Enno Patalas from unused footage, courtesy of the Österreichisches Filmmuseum Wien and Cineteca del Comune di Bologna ; Tabu: a work in progress, 15 minutes of raw camera footage, with narration, produced by the Deutsche Kinemathek ; "Hunt in the South Seas," a 1940 ethnographic short compiled from unused footage of Tabu. |
| System Details |
DVD; NTSC; region 1; fullscreen (1.19:1) presentation; mono 2.0. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Other | Classic View |