Sophiatown (2003)

Directed by

Pascale Lamche

Country

South Africa

Runtime

1h 22m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of aging artists return to the Johannesburg neighborhood where they grew up. They remember the music and street life of the 1950s, when different races mixed despite apartheid, and they perform two concerts that revive that spirit.

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What happens

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. This era is revisited by some of the artists who lived there and they call back the past in two concerts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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