# Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)

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**Runtime**: 86 min
**Genres**: Romance, Drama, Adventure
**Directed by**: F. W. Murnau
**Written by**: F. W. Murnau, Robert Flaherty, Edgar G. Ulmer
**Starring**: Matahi, Anne Chevalier, Bill Bambridge, Hitu, Jules

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Here's a film that fetishizes the South Seas as only a German Expressionist could. A pearl diver and a maiden fall for each other, but she has been chosen as the tribe's virgin sacrifice. It's quite an accomplishment that a film this racist is also so boring.

**Mood tags**: outsider, slow-burn

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