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Sophiatown (2003)
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Add to a movie listSophiatown is a 2003 documentary film. Sophiatown in the 1950s was a suburb of Johannesburg South Africa where all races mixed in defiance of apartheid. Sophiatown was famous for jazz and black gangsters heavily influenced by American film who spoke a slang called Tsotsitaal.
This era is revisited by some of the artists who lived there and they call back the past in two concerts.
Actors
Hugh Masekela
(Himself)
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