Film
Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
2022Directed by Catherine Bernstein, Martine Delumeau
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- Released
- Runtime
- 53m
About Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
- Documentary
- History
Synopsis
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.
- Directors
- Catherine Bernstein
- Martine Delumeau
- Original title
- Naissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback
