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Sophiatown

08/16/2003

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1hr 22min

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STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Jonas Gwangwa
  • Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Hugh Masekela
  • Dorothy Masuka

    Director

  • Pascale Lamche

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Little Bird

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • Afrikaans

Cast

Nelson Mandela

Self

Hugh Masekela

Self

Dorothy Masuka

Self

Jürgen Schadeberg

Self

Dolly Rathebe

Self

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