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Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper (1987)
Directed by St. Clair Bourne
Documentary · 1h 00m
One in a series of 13 documentaries on renowned American poets produced by the New York Center for Visual History. Described by director St. Clair Bourne as “a narrative performance documentary,” this category-defiant film on the life of poet and writer Hughes and the times in which he lived and worked moves from America to Senegal to Paris, from the 1920s Harlem Renaissance to the Black Pride awakening of the 1960s.
Cast
Amiri Baraka
Crew
- Director
- St. Clair Bourne
- Writer
- Leslie Lee
- Director of Photography
- Don Lenzer, Arthur Albert
- Original Music Composer
- Stanley Cowell
- Editor
- Sam Pollard
- Producer
- Robert Chapman
Details
- Release date
- 1987-02-23
- Runtime
- 1h 00m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN