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The Soul of a Man
The Soul of a Man

The Soul of a Man

6.4/10

1hr 43mins

Country:DE, US

2003

DocumentaryMusic
Spoken Languages: English, Italiano

Overview:

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.

Budget

$0.00

Production companies

Jigsaw Productions

Genre

Documentary, Music

Runtime

1hr 43mins

Rating

6.4/10

Release Date

2003-05-16