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Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening (2018)
Directed by Ilana Navaro
Documentary, Music · 52m
How did a poor little black girl from Missouri become the Queen of Paris, before joining the French Resistance and finally creating her dream family “The Rainbow Tribe”, adopting twelve children from four corners of the world? This is the fabulous story of the first black superstar, Josephine Baker.
Cast
Josephine Baker
Self (archive footage)
Léonie Simaga
Narrator (voice)
Sara Martins
Josephine Baker (voice)
T
Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Self
S
Simon Njami
Self
M
Margo Jefferson
Self
Katja Amberger
Self (voice)
M
Monia Douieb
Speaker (voice)
A
Anke Solveig Jeschke
Self (voice)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Verena Rendtorff
Self (voice)
Colette Sodoyez
Speaker (voice)
Crew
- Director
- Ilana Navaro
- Original Music Composer
- Marc Olivier Dupin
- Editor
- Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot
- Producer
- Juliette Cazanave
Details
- Original title
- Joséphine Baker, première icône noire
- Release date
- 2018-11-22
- Runtime
- 52m
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- English, French
- Countries
- Belgium, France
- Production
- Kepler22 Productions, Novak Prod, ARTE, RTBF