Searching for Sugar Man, a Red Box Films & Passion Pictures production in association with Canfield Pictures & the Documentary Company ; a film by Malik Bendjelloul ; produced by Simon Chinn, Malik Bendjelloul ; executive producer, John Battsek ; written, directed and edited by Malik Bendjelloul
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Searching for Sugar Man, a Red Box Films & Passion Pictures production in association with Canfield Pictures & the Documentary Company ; a film by Malik Bendjelloul ; produced by Simon Chinn, Malik Bendjelloul ; executive producer, John Battsek ; written, directed and edited by Malik Bendjelloul
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Rating: PG-13; for brief strong language and some drug references
Main title
Searching for Sugar Man
Oclc number
821079318
Responsibility statement
a Red Box Films & Passion Pictures production in association with Canfield Pictures & the Documentary Company ; a film by Malik Bendjelloul ; produced by Simon Chinn, Malik Bendjelloul ; executive producer, John Battsek ; written, directed and edited by Malik Bendjelloul
Runtime
87
Summary
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long rumored there to be dead, two fans, record store owner Stephen Segerman and journalist Craig Bartholomew-Strydom, decided to seek out the truth of his fate
Technique
live action
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Searching for Sugarman
Contributor
- Canfield Pictures (Firm)
- Battsek, John
- Avant, Clarence
- Skagerström, Camilla
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Theodore, Mike
- Segerman, Stephen
- Rowland, Steve, 1932-
- Bendjelloul, Malik, 1977-2014
- Rodriguez, Sixto
- Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
- Malan, Rian
- Documentary Company (London, England)
- Coffey, Dennis
- Bartholomew-Strydom, Craig
- Chinn, Simon
- Passion Pictures (Firm)
- Red Box Films
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- Documentary films
- DVD-Video discs
- Documentaires
- Folk musicians -- United States -- Biography
- Documentaries and Factual Films
- Films biographiques
- Nonfiction films
- Films autres que de fiction
- Rodriguez, Sixto
- Biographical films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films -- Great Britain
- Feature films
- Feature films -- Sweden
- Musiciens traditionnels -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
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- Battsek, John
- Avant, Clarence
- Skagerström, Camilla
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Theodore, Mike
- Segerman, Stephen
- Rowland, Steve, 1932-
- Bendjelloul, Malik, 1977-2014
- Rodriguez, Sixto
- Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
- Malan, Rian
- Documentary Company (London, England)
- Coffey, Dennis
- Bartholomew-Strydom, Craig
- Chinn, Simon
- Passion Pictures (Firm)
- Red Box Films
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- Subject16
- Documentary films
- DVD-Video discs
- Documentaires
- Folk musicians -- United States -- Biography
- Documentaries and Factual Films
- Films biographiques
- Nonfiction films
- Films autres que de fiction
- Rodriguez, Sixto
- Biographical films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films -- Great Britain
- Feature films
- Feature films -- Sweden
- Musiciens traditionnels -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
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