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The Soul of a Man (2003)
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.
Updated May 24 2020
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Cast
T Bone Burnett
Laurence Fishburne
Narrator
Bonnie Raitt
John Mayall
Skip James
Marc Ribot
Lucinda Williams
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Crew
Mathilde Bonnefoy
Editor
Wim Wenders
Director
Wim Wenders
Writer
Lisa Rinzler
Director of Photography
Samson Mucke
Line Producer
Alex Gibney
Producer
Paul Marcus
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