Naissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback (2022)
Title: Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
Original Title: Naissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback
Release Date: 2022-03-16
Status: Released
Rating: 8/10 (from 2 votes)
Language: FR
Genres: Documentary, History
Production Companies: 13 Prods, ARTE, Pop'Films
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.
Cast
Sandra Nkake
Self - Narrator (voice)
Melvin Van Peebles
Self
Max Van Peebles
Self
Marguerite Van Peebles
Self
Mike Sargent
Self
Mario Van Peebles
Self
Reginald Hudlin
Self
Sandra Rush
Self
Donna Dubrow
Self
Bill Duke
Self
