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Searching for Sugar Man(Movie, 2012)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 25min | Genres: Music, Documentary
Searching for Sugar ManRating: 3.9/5 (with 395395 votes)
Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him. Rodriguez's music, which had never achieved success in his home country of the United States, had become very popular in South Africa, although little was known about him there. On 10 February 2013, the film won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary at the 66th British Academy Film Awards in London and two weeks later, it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood. ()
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Awards & Nominations for Searching for Sugar Man

Amanda Award for Best Foreign Feature Film Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film Guldbagge Award for Best Documentary Feature Sundance World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary Sundance World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary European Film Academy Lux Award

About Searching for Sugar Man

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez. The film won Best Documentary at the 85th Academy Awards.

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Additional Information

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Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 10/05/2012 (World premiere: 06/30/2012)
Screenwriter: Malik Bendjelloul
Film Editor: Malik Bendjelloul
Composer: Sixto Rodriguez
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"À la recherche de Sugar Man"
"Pátrání po Sugar Manovi"
"Buscando a Sugar Man"
"Sugar Man"
"Psahnontas ton vasilia tis skonis"
"Potraga za Sugar Manom"
"Rodriguez nyomában"
"서칭 포 슈가맨"
"Buscando a Sugar Man"
"В поисках Сахарного Человека"
"Pátranie po Sugar Manovi"
"Bir Sarkinin Pesinde"
"尋找甜秘客"
"Searching for Sugarman"
Budget: 1,000,000 USD
Revenue: 3,696,196 USD (= 370%)

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