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Amandla! - A Revolution In Four Part Harmony
2002
With an uplifting mood that celebrates the victory of black South Africans who fought against Apartheid, AMANDLA shows how music and song played an essential role in the fight for freedom. The film focuses on the important spiritual sustenance that freedom music played in the long road to a free South Africa. Read more
| Starring | Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, Vusi Mahlasela |
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| Director | Lee Hirsch |
| Genres | Documentary |
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Amandla! - A Revolution In Four Part Harmony
With an uplifting mood that celebrates the victory of black South Africans who fought against Apartheid, AMANDLA shows how music and song played an essential role in the fight for freedom. The film focuses on the important spiritual sustenance that freedom music played in the long road to a free South Africa.
| Starring | Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, Vusi Mahlasela, Sibongile Khumalo |
|---|---|
| Director | Lee Hirsch |
| Studio | METRODOME DISTRIBUTION |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 42 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Documentary |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 19 Apr 2004 Production year: 2002 |
| Format | DVD |
Amandla! - A Revolution In Four Part Harmony (2002)
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Nine years in the making, this inspiring documentary reveals the role played by music in sustaining black South Africa's identity during its half-century struggle against apartheid. Director Lee Hirsch uses archive footage and personal reminiscences to chronicle the key events from 1948-98. But this is more specifically a history of the freedom music of Vuyisile Mini and Vusi Mahlasela — as well as such internationally renowned exiles as Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim — that enabled the repressed townships to endure injustice, prejudice and violence even though the outside world seemed to have forgotten them. Moreover, these erudite, evocative songs stand in stark contrast to the triteness of synthetic pop and rap's designer anger.
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There's a chilling moment in this remarkable documentary when one of the architects of apartheid, Hendrik Verwoerd,... read more on Time Out
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South African Songs From The Apartheid Era
'Amandla!' is a moving 2002 documentary film looking at the way South Africa's black population made their own music and songs to give them strength during the apartheid years from 1948 to the early 1990s. Mixing new interviews and archive footage, it includes contributions from Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Sophie Mgcina & Dolly Rathebe, who recall some of the songs which people sang during the era. Those who were caught up in the fight against the regime talk about the terrible conditions under which they lived, and how music and protest songs brought them together. The numerous on-screen songs come from the likes of The Community Choir of Diepkloof (Soweto), Hugh Masekela, Sibongile Khumalo and Vusi Mahlasela.
The wealth of extras include a Q&A with the producer and director at a film festival, deleted scenes, extended interviews, a live performance by Vusi Mahlasela, and audio commentary during the main feature.
The DVD comes with an audio CD of many of the soundtrack songs, featured in the same order they appear in the film. -
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Soundtrack CD
The second disc which comes with 'Amandla!' is an audio CD of many of the soundtrack songs from the film (29 tracks, 80 mins) - a mixture of new and old tracks - featured in the same order in which they appear in the film.
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Amandla! - A Revolution In Four Part Harmony
With an uplifting mood that celebrates the victory of black South Africans who fought against Apartheid, AMANDLA shows how music and song played an essential role in the fight for freedom. The film focuses on the important spiritual sustenance that freedom music played in the long road to a free ...
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