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

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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.

Country:

France

Genre:

Documentary,

History

Duration:

53 minutes

Year:

2022

Director:

Catherine Bernstein

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Company:

13 Prods,

ARTE,

Pop'Films

Cast:
Sandra Nkake

Self - Narrator (voice)

Melvin Van Peebles

Self

Max Van Peebles

Self

Marguerite Van Peebles

Self

Mike Sargent

Self

Crew:
Catherine Bernstein

Director

Martine Delumeau

Director

Pasquin Mariani

Sound

Benoît Alavoine

Editor

Jérôme Colin

Director of Photography