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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood

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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood

8.0

0h 53m

2022

Synopsis

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.

Director

Catherine Bernstein

Martine Delumeau

DocumentaryHistory

cinema on cinemablaxploitation cinemacinema historyusa cinema

Cast & Crew

Sandra Nkake

Sandra Nkake

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Melvin Van Peebles

Melvin Van Peebles

as Self

Max Van Peebles

as Self

Marguerite Van Peebles

as Self

Mike Sargent

as Self

Mario Van Peebles

Mario Van Peebles

as Self

Reginald Hudlin

Reginald Hudlin

as Self

Sandra Rush

as Self

Donna Dubrow

as Self

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