The Soul of a Man (2003)

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In "The Soul of A Man," director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his favorite blues artists: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. Part history, part personal pilgrimage, the film tells the story of these lives in music through an extended fictional film sequence (recreations of '20s and '30s events - shot in silent-film, hand-crank style), rare archival footage, present-day documentary scenes and covers of their songs by contemporary musicians such as Shemekia Copeland, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garland Jeffreys, Chris Thomas King, Cassandra Wilson, Nick Cave, Los Lobos, Eagle Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid, James "Blood" Ulmer, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Marc Ribot, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lucinda Williams and T-Bone Burnett.

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Director

Wim Wenders

Stars

Laurence Fishburne
Narrator

Chris Thomas King
Blind Willie Johnson

Keith B. Brown
Skip James

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Keywords

blues

Production

N/A

Actor

Laurence Fishburne, Chris Thomas King, Keith B. Brown, J.B. Lenoir, Skip James, T Bone Burnett, John Mayall, Lucinda Williams, Bonnie Raitt, Marc Ribot, Cassandra Wilson

Creators

Mathilde Bonnefoy (Editor), Wim Wenders (Director), Lisa Rinzler (Director of Photography), Samson Mucke (Line Producer), Alex Gibney (Producer), Paul Marcus (Line Producer), Margaret Bodde (Producer)

Release dates

16.05.2003 (FR)

The Soul of a Man (2003)

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