Sophiatown (2003) film

Sophiatown (2003) film

Infobox Film
name = Sophiatown


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director = Pascale Lamche
producer = Indra De Lanerolle
Pascale Lamche
Rob Lowdon
James Mitchell
Lebohang Morake
writer = Pascale Lamche
starring = Jonas Gwangwa
Abdullah Ibrahim
Nelson Mandela
Hugh Masekela
Dorothy Masuka
Dolly Rathebe
Jürgen Schadeberg
music =
cinematography = Dominic Black
editing = Catherine Meyburgh
distributor = Little Bird Productions
released =
runtime = 82 min.
country = Ireland/South Africa
language = English/Afrikaans
budget =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:307089
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Sophiatown in the 1950's was a suburb of Johannesburg South Africa that was similar to Harlem in that 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.

ee also

*imdb title|0399675|Sophiatown


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