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| Directed by | Wim Wenders |
| Written by | Wim Wenders |
| Produced by | Martin Scorsese |
| Cinematography | Lisa Rinzler |
| Edited by | Mathilde Bonnefoy |
| Music by | Skip James Blind Willie Johnson J. B. Lenoir |
| Distributed by | PBS |
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| Countries | United States Germany |
| Language | English |
The Soul of a Man is a 2003documentary film, directed byWim Wenders, as the second instalment of the documentary film seriesThe Blues, produced byMartin Scorsese. The film explores the musical careers ofblues musiciansSkip James,Blind Willie Johnson andJ. B. Lenoir.
The film is narrated byLaurence Fishburne in character as Blind Willie Johnson, and features performances byNick Cave and the Bad Seeds,Beck,Jon Spencer Blues Explosion,James 'Blood' Ulmer,T-Bone Burnett,Eagle Eye Cherry,Shemekia Copeland,Garland Jeffreys,Alvin Youngblood Hart,Los Lobos,Bonnie Raitt,Lou Reed,Marc Ribot,Lucinda Williams, andCassandra Wilson.
The film won anEmmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming, and the Audience Award at theSão Paulo International Film Festival. It was also screened out of competition at the2003 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
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