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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 ; written, directed, and edited by Malik Bendjelloul.
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Rodriguez, Sixto.
- Folk musicians--United States--Biography.
- Folk musicians.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Biographies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Anamorphic widescreen.
- Other Title:
- Searching for Sugarman
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Sony Pictures Classics ; Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue; with optional French subtitles and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- System Details:
- DVD; region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- digital
- optical
- Dolby digital 5.1
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- 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.
- Participant:
- Steve Segerman, Sixto Rodriguez.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Camilla Skagerström ; original songs by Sixto Rodriguez.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 2012.
- 1.78 aspect ratio.
- Special features: commentary with Malik Bendjelloul and Rodriguez; making Sugar Man; an evening with Malik Bendjelloul and Rodriguez; theatrical trailer.
- OCLC:
- 821079318
- Publisher Number:
- 043396413665
- 41366 Sony Pictures Classics
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