Sophiatown (film)

Sophiatown
Directed by Pascale Lamche
Produced by Indra De Lanerolle
Pascale Lamche
Rob Lowdon
James Mitchell
Lebohang Morake
Written by Pascale Lamche
Starring Jonas Gwangwa
Abdullah Ibrahim
Nelson Mandela
Hugh Masekela
Dorothy Masuka
Dolly Rathebe
Jürgen Schadeberg
Cinematography Dominic Black
Edited by Catherine Meyburgh
Distributed by Little Bird Productions
Release dates
2003
Running time
82 min.
Country Ireland/South Africa
Language English/Afrikaans

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.

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