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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood (2022)
movie · 53 min · 6.4/10
Not streaming in Sweden right now.
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.
Starring Sandra Nkake, Melvin Van Peebles, Max Van Peebles, Marguerite Van Peebles, Mike Sargent, Mario Van Peebles, Reginald Hudlin, Sandra Rush.