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Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
1931
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Aroma fra Fakarava
Duration: 0 h 16 m | 1985
On an island in the Pacific Ocean, 20,000 km from Norway, lives Aroma who is 12 years old. With a camera in his suitcase, the filmmaker traveled to visit him with his family.
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