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Sophiatown(Movie, 2003)

1h 22min
SophiatownRating: 1.0/5 (with 11 vote)
Sophiatown is a 2003 documentary film. Sophiatown in the 1950s was a suburb of Johannesburg South Africa where all races mixed in defiance of apartheid. Sophiatown was famous for jazz and black gangsters heavily influenced by American film who spoke a slang called Tsotsitaal. This era is revisited by some of the artists who lived there and they call back the past in two concerts. ()
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About Sophiatown

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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Abigail Kubeka - Yini Madoda - Jazz in Sophiatown(Clip, 3:36)

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Additional Information

Production countries: United Kingdom (UK), Ireland
Plays in: South Africa
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: Afrikaans (AF), English (EN)
Translated into 1 language: English (EN)
Status: Released
Release date US: 08/16/2003
Director: Pascale Lamche
Director of Photography: Dominic Black

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