The Soul of a Man

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Laurence Fishburne

Self - Narrator

Age : N/A | Popularity : 100%

Chris Thomas King

Blind Willie Johnson

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Keith B. Brown

Skip James

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

J.B. Lenoir

Self (archive footage)

Age : 38 | Popularity : 0%

Skip James

Self (archive footage)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

T Bone Burnett

Self

Age : 76 | Popularity : 21%

John Mayall

Self (archive footage)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 39%

Lucinda Williams

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 11%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Wim Wenders
Camera	Director of Photography	Lisa Rinzler
	Camera Operator	Wim Wenders
Production	Producer	Margaret Bodde Alex Gibney
	Line Producer	Paul Marcus Samson Mucke
Editing	Editor	Mathilde Bonnefoy
Writing	Writer	Wim Wenders
Department	Role	Name

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