The Soul of a Man(Movie, 2003)

Name: The Soul of a Man
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 2003
Duration: T01:43:00
Rating: 3.1

Rating: 3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

The Soul of a Man is a 2003 documentary film, directed by Wim Wenders, as the second instalment of the documentary film series The Blues, produced by Martin Scorsese. The film explores the musical careers of blues musicians Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. The film is narrated by Laurence Fishburne in character as Blind Willie Johnson, and features performances by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Beck, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, James 'Blood' Ulmer, T-Bone Burnett, Eagle Eye Cherry, Shemekia Copeland, Garland Jeffreys, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Los Lobos, Bonnie Raitt, Lou Reed, Marc Ribot, Lucinda Williams, and Cassandra Wilson. The film won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming, and the Audience Award at the São Paulo International Film Festival. It was also screened out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. ()

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In "The Soul of A Man," director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his favorite blues artists: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. Part history, part personal pilgrimage, the film tells the story of these lives in music through an extended fictional film sequence (recreations of '20s and '30s events - shot in silent-film, hand-crank style), rare archival footage, present-day documentary scenes and covers of their songs by contemporary musicians such as Shemekia Copeland, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garland Jeffreys, Chris Thomas King, Cassandra Wilson, Nick Cave, Los Lobos, Eagle Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid, James "Blood" Ulmer, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Marc Ribot, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lucinda Williams and T-Bone Burnett.

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Official websites:

www.wim-wenders.com

Production countries: Germany, United States of America (USA)

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Italian (IT)

Translated into 5 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 05/16/2003

Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Chris Thomas King

Director: Wim Wenders

Producer: Martin Scorsese, Alex Gibney

Composer: Skip James

Costume designer: Caroline Eselin

Keywords: blues

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