Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
Martine Delumeau2022-03-16
8
53 min
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
| Name | Character | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Sandra Nkake | Self - Narrator (voice) | Unowned |
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Melvin Van Peebles | Self | Unowned |
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Max Van Peebles | Self | Unowned |
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Marguerite Van Peebles | Self | Unowned |
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Mike Sargent | Self | Unowned |
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Mario Van Peebles | Self | Unowned |
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Reginald Hudlin | Self | Unowned |
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Sandra Rush | Self | Unowned |
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Donna Dubrow | Self | Unowned |
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Bill Duke | Self | Unowned |
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Philip Hart | Self | Unowned |
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Mandela Van Peebles | Self | Unowned |