The Soul of a Man

The Soul of a Man

Year: 2003

Runtime: 103 mins

Language: English

Director: Wim Wenders

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Wim Wenders’s documentary examines the blues’s clash of the sacred and the profane through the lives and music of Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J.B. Lenoir. It blends silent‑film‑style recreations of 1920s‑30s events, rare archival clips and modern interviews, and features contemporary artists such as Shemekia Copeland, Nick Cave, Lucinda Williams, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt and T‑Bone Burnett interpreting the legends’ songs.

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