Sophiatown (film)
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| Sophiatown | |
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| Directed by | Pascale Lamche |
| Produced by | Indra De Lanerolle Pascale Lamche Rob Lowdon James Mitchell Lebohang Morake |
| Written by | Pascale Lamche |
| 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 |
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Release dates
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2003 |
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Running time
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82 min. |
| 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.
See also
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External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Sophiatown at IMDb
- Sophiatown at AllMovie
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