Sweet Black Film The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood | Naissance d’un héros noir au cinéma Sweet Sweetback
Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in HollywoodNaissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback
Overview
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
Sandra Nkake
Melvin Van Peebles
Max Van Peebles
Marguerite Van Peebles
Mike Sargent
Mario Van Peebles
Reginald Hudlin
Sandra Rush
Donna Dubrow
Bill Duke
Philip Hart
Mandela Van Peebles
Crew
