Soul Power
“The greatest music festival that you have never seen.”
2009•PG•1h 33m•6.5•Released
DocumentaryMusic
Soul Power is a 2008 documentary film about the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa which accompanied the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in October 1974. The film was made from archival footage; other footage shot at the time focusing on the fight was edited to form the film When We Were Kings.
Director
Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte
Languages
French, English
Studio
Antidote Films
Cast
James Brown
Self (archive footage)
Bill Withers
Self (archive footage)
B.B. King
Self (archive footage)
Muhammad Ali
Self (archive footage)
Don King
Self (archive footage)
Manu Dibango
Self
Lola Love
Self
Franco Luombo
Self
Miriam Makeba
Self (archive footage)
Celia Cruz
Self (archive footage)
Hugh Masekela
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Pacheco
Self (archive footage)
George Plimpton
Self (archive footage)
Sweet Charles Sherrill
Self (archive footage)
Debbie Sledge
Self (archive footage)
Production
Company
Antidote Films
Producer
Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte
Producer
David Sonenberg
Producer
Leon Gast
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