Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

Directed by

Malik Bendjelloul

Genre

biographical film, music documentary film

Country

United Kingdom, Sweden

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 1,035 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two South African fans try to find out if a rumored 1970s musician named Rodriguez is still alive. His music was a hit in their country but he was unknown in the United States.

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What happens

Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of 1970s Mexican-American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to learn what had become of him. Rodriguez's music, which had never achieved success in his home country of the United States, had become very popular in South Africa, although little was known about him there. On 10 February 2013, the film won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary at the 66th British Academy Film Awards in London and two weeks later, it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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