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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
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.
Directed by Catherine Bernstein, Martine Delumeau
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User score
4 votes
Status
Released
Released
March 16, 2022
Runtime
53m
Language
English, French
