Sophiatown
2003-08-16 |
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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.
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The runtime of Sophiatown is 82 minutes.
On October 04, 2024, the IMDB rating of Sophiatown is 8.3/10, Rotten Tomato rating is 0/100, Metacritic rating is 0/100, TMDB rating is 2.0/10.
The director of Sophiatown is Pascale Lamche.
On October 04, 2024, there were 1430 public reaction to Sophiatown including like Scarface, cookie-cutter, dense plot, less enthusiastic, gauzy.
The release date of Sophiatown is August 16, 2003.
The casts of Sophiatown are Jonas Gwangwa starring as Himself, Abdullah Ibrahim starring as Himself, Nelson Mandela starring as Himself, Hugh Masekela starring as Himself, Dorothy Masuka starring as Herself, Jürgen Schadeberg starring as Himself.
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..