Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
Release Date: 2022-03-16
Overview: In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.
Rating: 8 / 10
Cast
Sandra Nkake
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Melvin Van Peebles
as Self
Max Van Peebles
as Self
Marguerite Van Peebles
as Self
Mike Sargent
as Self
Crew
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Catherine Bernstein - Director
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Martine Delumeau - Director
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Pasquin Mariani - Sound
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Benoît Alavoine - Editor
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Jérôme Colin - Director of Photography
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