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  1. Box office. $472,000. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, sometimes simply called Tabu ( pronounced [ˈtapu] ), is a 1931 American synchronized sound film directed by F. W. Murnau. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Western Electric Sound System sound-on-film process.

    • David Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty, F. W. Murnau
    • Matahi, Anne Chevalier, Bill Brambridge
  2. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas: Directed by F.W. Murnau. With Matahi, Anne Chevalier, Bill Bambridge, Hitu. 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.

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  3. Mar 1, 2024 · Moana, a tale of love in the exotic South Seas Islands, would lead to his collaboration with Nosferatu director F.W. Murnau on Tabu – the pair wrote the story, but Murnau directed most of the film (much to Flaherty’s dismay), which effectively takes the exotica of Moana and grafts it onto a melodramatic boy-meets-girl tragedy.

  4. Nov 14, 2017 · TABU: A Story of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau) by. Edward Boensnes. Usage. Attribution 4.0 International. Topics. silent. All native cast portrays a story of a couple attempting to escape the girl being chosen to serve the gods. Music composed and copyrighted by Edward Boensnes. Addeddate. 2017-11-14 19:39:25. Ia_orig__runtime. 81 minutes 6 seconds.

  5. Dec 16, 2015 · A full four years removed from his landmark Hollywood-backed masterpiece Sunrise, Murnau joined forces with Flaherty to tell the story of Matahi, a pearl fisherman caught in a romantic net by Reri, a beautiful young woman. When their romance is threatened not only by her tribe putting the tag of priestess on her but also a civilization that ...

  6. Nov 16, 2022 · Tabu: A Story of the South Seas. Lost Paradise: F.W. Murnau’s Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) Andréas Giannopoulos. November 2022. CTEQ Annotations on Film. Issue 103. By the end of the 1920s the success of Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) had made F. W. Murnau a significantly wealthy and commanding figure in Hollywood.

  7. Summaries. 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. In his final film, F.W. Murnau presents the tale of two young lovers on the idyllic island of Bora Bora in the South Pacific.