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The Soul of a Man

2003 · 1h 43m · Documentary · Music

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Overview

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.

Cast

Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne

Self - Narrator

Chris Thomas King

Blind Willie Johnson

Keith B. Brown

Skip James

J.B. Lenoir

J.B. Lenoir

Self (archive footage)

Skip James

Self (archive footage)

T Bone Burnett

T Bone Burnett

Self

John Mayall

Self (archive footage)

Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams

Self

Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt

Self

Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot

Self

Cassandra Wilson

Self

Crew

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Details

Release date
May 16, 2003
Status
Released
Original language
English
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Documentary, Music

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