- The Soul of a Man
Infobox Film
name=Soul of a Man
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writer =Wim Wenders
starring =
director =Wim Wenders
producer =Martin Scorsese
music =Skip James Blind Willie Johnson J. B. Lenoir
cinematography =Liza Rinzler
editing =Mathilde Bonnefoy
distributor = PBS
released =2003
runtime = 103 min.
language = English
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imdb_id=0368287"The Soul of a Man" is a
2003 documentary film directed byWim Wenders as the fourth installment of the documentary film series "The Blues" produced byMartin Scorsese . The film explores the musical careers of blues musiciansSkip James ,Blind Willie Johnson andJ. B. Lenoir .The film is narrated by
Laurence Fishburne and features performances byNick Cave and the Bad Seeds ,Beck ,Jon Spencer Blues Explosion ,James 'Blood' Ulmer ,T-Bone Burnett ,Eagle Eye Cherry ,Shemekia Copeland ,Garland Jeffreys ,Alvin Youngblood Hart ,Los Lobos ,Bonnie Raitt ,Lou Reed ,Marc Ribot ,Lucinda Williams , andCassandra Wilson . The film won anEmmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming, and the Audience Award at theSão Paulo International Film Festival .External links
* [http://www.wim-wenders.com/movies/movies_spec/thesoulofaman/the-soul-of-a-man.htm Information on Wim Wender's official site]
* [http://www.pbs.org/theblues/aboutfilms/wenders.html Information on the PBS site]
*imdb title|id=0368287|title=The Soul of a Man
* [http://www.silbersee-film.de/de/mov/wenders_soam.mov Excerpt of the film] (Quicktime , 15 MB) Blind Willie Johnson (played byChris Thomas King ) performs "Trouble (Will) Soon Be Over"
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