Released
Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
March 16 2022 (almost 3 years ago)Rating
80
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2 reviews
- Directors: Catherine Bernstein, Martine Delumeau
- Genres: Documentary, History
- Runtime: 53 m
- Country: France
- 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.
