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Sophiatown

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Calorie Rating: 115
Released: 2003-08-16
Running Time: 82 Minutes
Studios: Little Bird,


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.

Director / Directors



Cast

Jonas Gwangwa
Character: Self
Abdullah Ibrahim
Character: Self
Nelson Mandela
Character: Self

Hugh Masekela
Character: Self
Dorothy Masuka
Character: Self
Jürgen Schadeberg
Character: Self

Dolly Rathebe
Character: Self


Production and Crew

Bheki Khoza
Sound Director

Dominic Black
Cinematography

Rob Lowdon
Producer
Wilbert Schübel
Sound Editor

Louise Mycielski
Video Assist Operator