Sophiatown
2003 | 82m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Pascale Lamche |
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| Writer: | Pascale Lamche |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 16, 2003 |
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| Director: | Pascale Lamche |
| Writer: | Pascale Lamche |
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| Keywords | africa, jazz, gangster, south africa, musician, apartheid, woman director |
| Production Companies | Little Bird |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2025 (Update) Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Jonas Gwangwa | Self |
| Abdullah Ibrahim | Self |
| Nelson Mandela | Self |
| Hugh Masekela | Self |
| Dorothy Masuka | Self |
| Jürgen Schadeberg | Self |
| Dolly Rathebe | Self |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Wilbert Schübel | Sound Editor |
| Catherine Meyburgh | Editor |
| Pascale Lamche | Writer, Director |
| Bheki Khoza | Sound Director |
| Louise Mycielski | Video Assist Operator |
| Dominic Black | Cinematography |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Pascale Lamche | Producer |
| Rob Lowdon | Producer |
| Lebohang Morake | Producer |
| Indra De Lanerolle | Producer |
| James Mitchell | Producer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
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