[DVD] TABU: A Story of the South Seas

[DVD] TABU: A Story of the South Seas

Director: F

Cast: Anne Chevalier, Matahi

Disc: 1 disc

Age Rating: 15+

Runtime: 84 min

Subtitle: Korean, Spanish, Greek, French

Aspect Ratio: 1.33: 1

Synopsis:

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas 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. A docufiction, it is split into two chapters: The first, called "Paradise", depicts the lives of two lovers on a South Seas island until they are forced to escape the island when the girl is chosen as a holy maid to the gods. The second chapter, "Paradise Lost", depicts the couple's life on a colonised island and how they adapt to and are exploited by Western civilisation. The title comes from the Polynesian concept of tapu, from which is derived the English word "taboo".