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

The read

It runs a compact 53m.

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.

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Key crew

• Catherine BernsteinDirector
• Martine DelumeauDirector

Cast

• Sandra NkakeSelf - Narrator (voice)
• Melvin Van PeeblesSelf
• Max Van PeeblesSelf
• Marguerite Van PeeblesSelf
• Mike SargentSelf
• Mario Van PeeblesSelf
• Reginald HudlinSelf
• Sandra RushSelf
• Donna DubrowSelf
• Bill DukeSelf
• Philip HartSelf
• Mandela Van PeeblesSelf

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