Sophiatown (film)
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.
| Sophiatown | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
This era is revisited by some of the artists who lived there and they call back the past in two concerts.
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