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Sophiatown 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.

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Sophiatown
Directed by	Pascale Lamche
Written by	Pascale Lamche
Produced by	Indra De Lanerolle Pascale Lamche Rob Lowdon James Mitchell Lebohang Morake
Starring	Jonas Gwangwa Abdullah Ibrahim Nelson Mandela Hugh Masekela Dorothy Masuka Dolly Rathebe Jürgen Schadeberg
Cinematography	Dominic Black
Edited by	Catherine Meyburgh
Distributed by	Little Bird Productions
Release date	2003
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Ireland/South Africa
Language	English/Afrikaans

This era is revisited by some of the artists who lived there and they call back the past in two concerts.

External links

• Sophiatown at IMDb
• Sophiatown at AllMovie

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