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Sophiatown
2003
- Pascale Lamche
- 1h 22m
- August 16, 2003 · United Kingdom, Ireland
Overview
Little Bird's first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. SOPHIATOWN celebrates the great popular jazz music of the 1950's in South Africa; a rich tradition deserving international attention. Director Pascale Lamche, traces the music, uncovers the artists who created it and the unique culture in which it thrived, concentrated in Sophiatown, Johannesburg's own Harlem, which fuelled by liberation politics until its destruction by the Apartheid regime. The film features Nelson Mandela and such household names from the jazz world as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jonas Gwangwa and Caiphus Semenya.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 16, 2003
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Afrikaans
- Countries
- United Kingdom, Ireland
- Production
- Little Bird
- Cast
- Dolly Rathebe,Hugh Masekela,Jonas Gwangwa,Abdullah Ibrahim,Nelson Mandela,Dorothy Masuka,Jürgen Schadeberg
- Director
- Pascale Lamche
- Writer
- Pascale Lamche
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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