Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, US, 1931, 86 min., ND + ES

A fiction film with ethnographic elements tells a story of two lovers from the island of Bora Bora. She has been chosen as a virgin for the gods and so they flee to a nearby island. The island is however under the colonial control which causes the young couple more problems. The last film of F. W. Murnau talks about a clash of cultures.