Sophiatown

Movie

2003

1h 22m

User Score:

8.4

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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....

Sophiatown Poster

Sophiatown

Movie

2003

1h 22m

English

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.

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Cast

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Jonas Gwangwa

Himself

Abdullah Ibrahim

Abdullah Ibrahim

Self

Nelson Mandela

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Hugh Masekela

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Dorothy Masuka

Herself

Jrgen Schadeberg

Jürgen Schadeberg

Himself

Dolly Rathebe

Self

Directed By: Pascale Lamche

Written By: Pascale Lamche

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