Sophiatown

Sophiatown

2003
1h 22m
6.0

6.0/10

2 votes • View on IMDb
Overview

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.

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Production Information

Production Companies
Little Bird
Production Countries
United Kingdom Ireland
Spoken Languages
English Afrikaans

Keywords

jazz musician africa gangster south africa apartheid woman director

Quick Facts

Release Date August 16, 2003
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0399675

Cast

Jonas Gwangwa
Jonas Gwangwa

Self

Abdullah Ibrahim
Abdullah Ibrahim

Self

Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela

Self

Hugh Masekela
Hugh Masekela

Self

Dorothy Masuka
Dorothy Masuka

Self

Jürgen Schadeberg
Jürgen Schadeberg

Self

Dolly Rathebe
Dolly Rathebe

Self

Key Crew

Indra De Lanerolle
Producer
Rob Lowdon
Producer
Lebohang Morake
Producer
James Mitchell
Producer
Pascale Lamche
Producer
Pascale Lamche
Director
Pascale Lamche
Writer