The Soul of a Man

The Soul of a Man by Wim Wenders

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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.

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Cast

Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne as Self - Narrator

Chris Thomas King

Chris Thomas King as Blind Willie Johnson

Keith B. Brown

Keith B. Brown as Skip James

J.B. Lenoir

J.B. Lenoir as Self (archive footage)

Skip James

Skip James as Self (archive footage)

T Bone Burnett

T Bone Burnett as Self

John Mayall

John Mayall as Self (archive footage)

Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams as Self

Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt as Self

Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot as Self

Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson as Self

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