Moana
In the South Seas, Samoan village life is portrayed 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 pride of beauty and pride of strength.
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Robert Flaherty Director · Frances H. Flaherty Director Julian Johnson Writer
United States release January 7, 1926 · Produced in United States, Samoa · Production Paramount Pictures, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Production
Robert Flaherty Productions Inc.
Production
Paramount Pictures
Studio
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Production
United States · Samoa
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · January 7, 1926
Theatrical
United States
May 22, 1973 · Limited theatrical · Museum of Modern Art, New York
August 7, 1980 · Theatrical · David Shepard 90m Restoration
November 13, 2015 · Theatrical · New York City, New York (Digitally Restored Version)
Denmark
March 16, 1926 · Theatrical
Finland
October 22, 1926 · Theatrical
Japan
November 30, 1928 · Theatrical
September 15, 2018 · Theatrical · Sound Version
Portugal
January 30, 1928 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
November 18, 1926 · Theatrical
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