
1959
A group of scientists are trying to stop a filaria epidemic spreading through a Tahitian population. They meet resistance in using western medicine to combat the disease from the medicine man and chief until the chief's son is infested with the parasitic worm which causes the disease.

Ana
Herself

Vahio
Himself

Taia Tepava
Medicine Man

Tehapaitua Salmon
Chief Morro

George Thooris
Dr. De Motte

Henry K. Beye
Dr. Stuart

Ben Bambridge
Ben

William A. Robinson
Robinson

Tetoa Mauu
Tetoa

Denise Pottier
Singer

Miri Rei
Narrator

Birds of Passage

El Norte

Little Deer

Robinson Crusoe

Mutiny on the Bounty

Once Were Warriors

The Bounty

Isaac Littlefeathers

Mutiny on the Bounty

Portraits from a Fire

1492: Conquest of Paradise

Katshinau

Keep Quiet

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

Dead Man

10,000 BC

Young People Ask

Marae

Yellowtail

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti