Tabu Blu-ray

'Tabu: A Story of the South Seas' Director: F.W. Murnau (1931) Eureka Masters of Cinema Blu-ray | Silent w/ English intertitles

For what would be his final film, silent cinema master F.W. Murnau invited leading documentarist Robert Flaherty (Man of Aran, Nanook of the North) to collaborate on this project shot on location in Tahiti - a Polynesian idyll in which Murnau imagined a cast of island actors would provide a new form of authentic drama and offer rare insight into their culture. With Oscar-winning cinematography by Floyd Crosby (High Noon).

Tabu is the story of forbidden love between a fisherman and a young woman who has been consecrated to the gods, rendering her tabu as far as mortal men are concerned. The lovers flee their island and its restrictive traditions, but will their love prevail in the “civilised” world?

Special features include:
- Full-length commentary track by R. Dixon Smith and Brad Stevens
- 15-minute German documentary about Tabu by Luciano Berriatúa
- Treibjagd in der Südsee (short subject from 1940 depicting a South Seas fishing hunt, created from unused material from the filming of Tabu)
- 56-page booklet containing writing by Murnau, Scott Eyman, David Flaherty, and Mark Langer & Floyd Crosby, along with “A Song for Mr. Murnau” and rare imagery