The Soul of a Man

The Soul of a Man (2003)


  • Genre: Documentary, Music
  • Release Date: 2003-05-16
  • User Rating: 6.4/10 from 21 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 43min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Jigsaw Productions
  • Production Country: Germany, United States of America
  • Director: Wim Wenders
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Summary

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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  • Laurence Fishburne

    as Self - Narrator
  • Chris Thomas King

    as Blind Willie Johnson
  • Keith B. Brown

    as Skip James
  • J.B. Lenoir

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Skip James

    as Self (archive footage)
  • T Bone Burnett

    as Self
  • John Mayall

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Lucinda Williams

    as Self
  • Bonnie Raitt

    as Self
  • Marc Ribot

    as Self
  • Cassandra Wilson

    as Self
Production Alex Gibney Producer
Directing Wim Wenders Director
Production Margaret Bodde Producer
Camera Lisa Rinzler Director of Photography
Editing Mathilde Bonnefoy Editor
Production Paul Marcus Line Producer
Writing Wim Wenders Writer
Production Samson Mucke Line Producer
Camera Wim Wenders Camera Operator
Camera Alex Gibney Camera Operator

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