Sophiatown (film) explained

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.