
Moana
- Released on
- Runtime
- 98 mins
Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, portraying Samoan village life with a painterly eye. Blending ethnographic detail with a romanticized “Gauguin idyll,” the film celebrates daily rituals, communal traditions, and the passage into adulthood, suffused with what Flaherty called “pride of beauty, pride of strength.”
Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, portraying Samoan village life with a painterly eye. Blending ethnographic detail with a romanticized “Gauguin idyll,” the film celebrates daily rituals, communal traditions, and the passage into adulthood, suffused with what Flaherty called “pride of beauty, pride of strength.”
Cast
- Ta'avale
- Fa'amgase
- Tama
- T'ugaita
- Pe'a
- Leupenga
Director
- Robert Flaherty
- Frances H. Flaherty
Producers
- Frances H. Flaherty
- Robert Flaherty
Screenwriter
- Frances H. Flaherty
- Robert Flaherty