PG-13
2002    57mDocumentary, Music
7.99.0
In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled "Strange Fruit" that begins with the words: "Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root." He set the poem to music and a few years later convinced Billie Holiday to record it in a legendary heartbreaking performance. Intertwining jazz genealogy, biography, performance footage, and the history of lynching, director Joel Katz fashions a fascinating discovery of the lost story behind a true American classic.
Regissert av Joel Katz

Hvor å se Strange Fruit

  • Dorothy ThigpenSelf
  • Milton GablerSelf
  • Farah Jasmine GriffinSelf
  • Pete SeegerSelf
  • Ethel RosenbergSelf
  • Julius RosenbergSelf
  • Billie HolidaySelf
  • Cassandra WilsonSelf
  • Joel KatzRegissør

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