FILM REVIEW
Sophiatown
Director: Pascale Lamche
Cast: Dorothy Masuka, Abdullah Ibrahim, Hugh Masekela,
Dolly Rathebe
Classification: PG
Running Time: 82 minutes
Opens On: 4 February 2005
Sophiatown celebrates the great popular jazz music of the 1950's in
South Africa, a rich tradition deserving international attention. Director
Pascale Lamche, traces the music, uncovers the artists who created it and
the unique culture in which it thrived, concentrated in Sophiatown,
Johannesburg's own Harlem, which fuelled by liberation politics until its
destruction by the Apartheid regime.
The film features Nelson Mandela and such household names from the jazz
world as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jonas Gwangwa and
Caiphus Semenya.
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