Film
Tabu, Story of the South Seas
D: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Fri, Jul 25, 2008
10 pm
Admission Film solo: € 5, concessions € 3 | Day ticket all inclusive: € 10, conc. € 8
USA 1931, b/w, 84 min, silent film with music track and English
Murnau made this famous melodramatic silent-film melodrama in the early 1930s at original sites in the South Sea region: a young woman, dedicated to the gods, and therefore untouchable, does not want to relinquish her heart’s desire. She flees with her loved-one, breaks the taboo…
After the preview and before the film’s premiere, F.W. Murnau died in Sta. Barbara after being involved in a car crash. The speculation began: Was it because they broke a taboo?
