Sophiatown (2003)
1h 22m
Running Time
August 16, 2003Release Date
Plot.
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 & Crew.
Jonas Gwangwa
Self
Abdullah Ibrahim
Self
Nelson Mandela
Self
Hugh Masekela
Self
Pascale Lamche
Director
Dominic Black
Cinematographer
Catherine Meyburgh
Editor
James Mitchell
Producer
Details.
Release DateAugust 16, 2003
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 22m
Wiki.
Sophiatown is a 2003 documentary film. Sophiatown in the 1950s was a suburb of Johannesburg South Africa where all races mixed in defiance of apartheid. Sophiatown was famous for jazz and black gangsters heavily influenced by American film who spoke a slang called Tsotsitaal.
This era is revisited by some of the artists who lived there and they call back the past in two concerts.