Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
16/03/2022
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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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
Mario Van Peebles
as Self
Reginald Hudlin
as Self
Sandra Rush
as Self
Donna Dubrow
as Self
Bill Duke
as Self
Philip Hart
as Self
Mandela Van Peebles
as Self
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