My Father and the Man in Black (2012)

Original title

My Father And The Man In Black

Directed by

Jonathan Holiff

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker discovers his late father's audio diaries and documents from his years managing Johnny Cash. The documentary explores their complicated professional and personal relationship through these recordings.

intimatereflectivenostalgicemotionalpersonalhonestrevealingcontemplative

What happens

My Father and the Man in Black is a 2012 Canadian documentary film directed and produced by Jonathan Holiff about the stormy relationship between country music star Johnny Cash and the filmmaker's father, Saul Holiff, Cash's personal manager. It qualified for Oscar consideration in 2013. Holiff was inspired to produce the film when he stumbled on his father's storage locker filled with audio diaries and a large assortment of other documents relating to his time in the 1960s and 1970s as Cash's manager. The locker also included a framed gold record of "A Boy Named Sue" which went on display at the Grand Theatre during the running of their musical Ring of Fire. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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