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Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.
- DIRECTOR
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- Malik Bendjelloul
- WRITERS
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- Malik Bendjelloul
- Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman
- Red Box Films
- STUDIOS
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- Red Box Films
- Passion Pictures
- Canfield Pictures
- WEBSITE
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- SUGARMAN.JP/
- CAST
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Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman as Himself - Record Shop Owner -
Dennis Coffey as Himself - Co-Producer, Cold Fact 1970 -
Mike Theodore as Himself - Co-Producer, Cold Fact 1970 -
Dan DiMaggio as Himself - Bartender, The Brewery -
Jerome Ferretti as Himself - Bricklayer -
Steve Rowland as Himself - Producer, Coming from Reality 1971
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In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. Long rumored there to be dead by suicide, a few fans in the 1990s decided to seek out the truth of their hero's fate. What follows is a bizarrely heartening story in which they found far more in their quest than they ever hoped, while a Detroit construction laborer discovered that his lost artistic dreams came true after all.
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