The Soul of a Man

The Soul of a Man

🎞️ Movie 103 min DE
โ˜… 7.3 /10 2003

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.

Direction
Screenplay

Cast

Chris Thomas King
Chris Thomas King
Blind Willie Johnson
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Keith B. Brown
Skip James
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James Hughes
H.C. Speirs
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David F. Hughes
Art Laibly
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Shayne Tingle
Recording engineer
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Joy Brashears
Secretary
Beck
Beck
Self
Self - Featured Performer
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James Blood Ulmer
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Self - Featured Performer
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T Bone Burnett
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Self - Featured Performer
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Lisa Rinzler
Cinematographer