| Sophiatown | |
| Director: | Pascale Lamche |
| Producer: | 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 |
| Editing: | Catherine Meyburgh |
| Distributor: | Little Bird Productions |
| Runtime: | 82 minutes |
| Country: | Ireland/South Africa |
| Language: | English/Afrikaans |
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.
This era is revisited by some of the artists who lived there and they call back the past in two concerts.