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Sophiatown (2003)

Directed by Pascale Lamche

· 1h 22m

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 Self Abdullah Ibrahim Self Nelson Mandela Self Hugh Masekela Self
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Dorothy Masuka Self
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Jürgen Schadeberg Self Dolly Rathebe Self

Crew

Director
Pascale Lamche
Writer
Pascale Lamche
Editor
Catherine Meyburgh
Producer
Indra De Lanerolle, Pascale Lamche, Rob Lowdon, James Mitchell, Lebohang Morake

Details

Release date
2003-08-16
Runtime
1h 22m
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English, Afrikaans
Countries
United Kingdom, Ireland
Production
Little Bird