“Searching for Sugar Man” ( born Searching for Sugar Man ) - a documentary film directed by Malik Bendzhelul , released in 2012 .
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| Genre | documentary |
| Producer | Malik Benjellul |
| Producer | Malik Benjellul Simon Chinn |
| Author script | Malik Benjellul Stephen Segerman Craig Bartholomew Stride |
| In the main cast | Sixto Rodriguez |
| Operator | Camilla Skagerstrom |
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| Film company | Red Box Films, Passion Pictures, Canfield Pictures, Documentary Company, Hysteria Film, Saperi Film, Sveriges Television, YLE Co-Productions |
| Duration | 86 min. |
| Fees | $ 3.7 million (in the US) |
| A country |  Sweden  Great Britain |
| Tongue | English |
| Year | 2012 |
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Story
Sixto Rodriguez is an American musician and songwriter of an acute social nature. In the early 1970s, he released a couple of albums, but they were not popular, so he stopped recording and disappeared from sight. Meanwhile, Rodriguez's songs became widely known in South Africa among youth opposed to the apartheid regime. Since the penetration of information from outside at that time was difficult, Rodriguez’s identity was completely mysterious for his South African fans. There were rumors about his death that he either shot himself or burned himself right on stage. In the 1990s, after the fall of the apartheid regime, two Rodriguez fans Stephen Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Stride decided to launch an investigation and find out what kind of man this was and what really happened to him ...
Soundtrack
In 2012, an album was released with tracks from the film. As a result of the success of the documentary tape, the record occupied the top lines in the charts of many countries, which is not typical of soundtracks. The Oscar nomination has added an album of popularity: at the beginning of 2013, he rose to the 3rd place in the Sweden chart and stayed there for 26 weeks - by then winning the coveted statuette; in Denmark, he reached the 18th line; in New Zealand - the 9th.
Awards and nominations
- 2012 - Special Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival (Malik Bendjellul).
- 2012 - Audience Award of the Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival (Malik Benjellul).
- 2012 - Prize of the Moscow Film Festival for the best documentary (Malik Benjellul).
- 2012 - Award of the National Council of Film Critics of the United States for the best documentary.
- 2012 - nominated for the British Independent Film Award for Best International Film.
- 2013 - the Oscar for the best documentary (Malik Bengellul, Simon Chinn).
- 2013 - BAFTA Award for Best Documentary (Malik Benjellul, Simon Chinn).
- 2013 - Golden Beetle Award for the best documentary film (Malik Bendzhellul), and also 5 nominations: best film (Malik Bendzhellul, Simon Chinn), script (Malik Bendzhellul), music (Malik Bendzhellul, Rodriguez), installation (Malik Bendzhellul) sound (Per Nystrom).
- 2013 - Amanda Award for Best Foreign Film (Malik Benjellul).
- 2013 - United States Directors Guild Award for Best Director of a Documentary Film (Malik Bengellul).
- 2013 - U.S. Scriptwriters Guild Award for Best Documentary Screenplay (Malik Benjellul).
- 2013 - the audience award at the Gothenburg Film Festival (Malik Bendjellul).
- 2013 - nomination for the award “Bodil” for the best non-American film (Malik Benjellul).
- 2013 - nominated for the European Film Academy Award in the category “audience sympathy” (Malik Bendjellul).
Links
- “Looking for Sugar Man” (eng.) On the Internet Movie Database
- Looking for the Sugar Man (eng.) On the website allmovie
- "Looking for a Sugar Man" on Box Office Mojo