Moana

Name: Moana
Director: Robert Flaherty
Released: 1926-01-07
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Ta'avale, Fa'amgase, Tama, T'ugaita, Pe'a

6.6

January 7, 1926

1h 38m

Documentary

Overview

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.”