
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
Crew

Robert Flaherty
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer
Frances H. Flaherty
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
Julian Johnson
Writer, Editor
Bob Roberts
Director of Photography

Jesse L. Lasky
Executive Producer

Adolph Zukor
Executive Producer
James C. Bradford
Original Music Composer
Fialelei
Translator
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