Searching for Sugar Man
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Malik Bendjelloul
Sixto Rodriguez
Robbie Mann
Dan Dimaggio
Dennis Coffey
Steve M. Harris
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In the late 1960s, two celebrated producers discovered a musician in a Detroit bar and were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics. They recorded an album that they believed was going to secure his reputation as one of the greatest recording artists of his generation. In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa, and, over the next two decades, it became a phenomenon. Two South African fans then set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation led them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez.
Director
Malik Bendjelloul
Cast
Sixto Rodriguez
Robbie Mann
Dan Dimaggio
Dennis Coffey
Steve M. Harris
Stephen Segerman
Eva Rodriguez
Mike Theodore
Sandra Rodriguez-kennedy
Steve Rowland
Willem Moller
Ilse Assmann
Rick Emmerson
Clarence Avant
Craig Bartholomew-strydom
Rian Malan
Regan Rodriguez
Jerome Ferretti
Crew
Ilse Assmann
Clarence Avant
Craig Bartholomew-strydom
John Battsek
Malik Bendjelloul
Malik Bendjelloul
Malik Bendjelloul
Malik Bendjelloul
George Chignell
Simon Chinn
Dennis Coffey
Sheryl Crown
Dan Dimaggio
Rick Emmerson
Jerome Ferretti
Malla Grapengiesser
Steve M. Harris
Rian Malan
Robbie Mann
Willem Moller
Maggie Monteith
Per Nystrom
Per Nystrom
Hjalmar Palmgren
Eva Rodriguez
Regan Rodriguez
Sandra Rodriguez-kennedy
Steve Rowland
Andrew Ruhemann
Stephen Segerman
Stephen Segerman
Camilla Skagerstrom
Camilla Skagerstrom
Nicole Stott
Mike Theodore
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Limited Release in United States July 27, 2012
Released in United States October 3, 2012
Limited Release in United States July 27, 2012 (Los Angeles & New York City)
Released in United States October 3, 2012
Released in United States 2012 (World Cinema Documentary Competition)
Released in United States 2012 (Spotlight)
Released in United States 2012 (Summer Showcase)
Released in United States 2012
Released in United States 2012 (Silver Spectrum)
