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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. 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.Extra
Durata | 82 minute |
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Producator | Little Bird Productions |
Limba | English Afrikaans |
Teme | woman director music africa south africa apartheid gangster musician jazz |
Actori | Abdullah Ibrahim Nelson Mandela Hugh Masekela Dolly Rathebe Jonas Gwangwa Dorothy Masuka Jürgen Schadeberg |
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Asemanatoare
Kolja
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Producator: Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)
Data lansare: 05 May 1996
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Producator: Hemdale Film Corporation
Data lansare: 18 Dec 1986