Searching for Sugar Man.
Searching for Sugarman.
- 1 DVD-video (approximately 83 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.
"MMA8924." Title from disc label. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2012. Special features: commentary with Malik Bendjelloul and Rodriguez; making Sugar Man; an evening with Malik Bendjelloul and Rodriguez; theatrical trailer.
Directed by Malik Bendjelloul. Directed by Malik Bendjelloul.
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long rumored there to be dead, two fans, record store owner Stephen Segerman and journalist Craig Bartholomew-Strydom, decided to seek out the truth of his fate.