The Soul of a Man (2003)

05/16/2003 (DE) • 1h 43m

Documentary, Music

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.

Top Billed Cast

Laurence Fishburne

Self - Narrator

Chris Thomas King

Blind Willie Johnson

Keith B. Brown

Skip James

J.B. Lenoir

Self (archive footage)

Skip James

Self (archive footage)

John Mayall

Self (archive footage)


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Part of the The Blues

Includes Feel Like Going Home, The Soul of a Man, The Road to Memphis

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

blues

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