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Sophiatown (film)

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Sophiatown
Directed byPascale Lamche
Written byPascale Lamche
Produced byIndra De Lanerolle
Pascale Lamche
Rob Lowdon
James Mitchell
Lebohang Morake
StarringJonas Gwangwa
Abdullah Ibrahim
Nelson Mandela
Hugh Masekela
Dorothy Masuka
Dolly Rathebe
Jürgen Schadeberg
CinematographyDominic Black
Edited byCatherine Meyburgh
Distributed byLittle Bird Productions
Release date
  • 2003 (2003)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryIreland/South Africa
LanguageEnglish/Afrikaans

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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