Another Murnau Film
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THE brother of a distinguished German, F. W. Murnau, the film director, who was well-known and beloved in French Oceania, arrived in Australia in February by the “Leuna.” He is Herr Robert Mur nau of Berlin.
Mr. Murnau has been administrator of his brother’s estate since the latter’s death in a motor accident in U.S.A. in 1931. The estate includes property in Europe and America and the tiny island of Anaa, south of the Marquesas, in the Eastern Pacific.
It was on Anaa that Murnau made his magnificent South Seas film “Taboo,” a picture of whose Tahitian girl star, Reri, adorned Mr. Murnau’s cabin in the “Leuna.”
Mr. Murnau said that his brother had made another South Seas travelogue film which had been released to the German Ufa concern three months ago. He ex pected that the new film eventually will be shown in Australian and Pacific Islands centres.