Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
Film - 2022
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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood it's a movie with Sandra Nkake, Melvin Van Peebles, Max Van Peebles, Marguerite Van Peebles, Mike Sargent Full cast. Directed by Catherine Bernstein, Martine Delumeau. Original title Naissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback, runtime 53 minutes. Genres Documentary, History.
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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.