Sophiatown (film)
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Sophiatown | |
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Directed by | Pascale Lamche |
Written by | Pascale Lamche |
Produced by | Indra De Lanerolle Pascale Lamche Rob Lowdon James Mitchell Lebohang Morake |
Starring | Jonas Gwangwa Abdullah Ibrahim Nelson Mandela Hugh Masekela Dorothy Masuka Dolly Rathebe Jürgen Schadeberg |
Cinematography | Dominic Black |
Edited by | Catherine Meyburgh |
Distributed by | Little Bird Productions |
Release date | 2003 |
Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | Ireland/South Africa |
Language | English/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.
External links
- Sophiatown at IMDb
- Sophiatown at AllMovie