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Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening

2018
52m
Biography/Documentary
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Cast

Léonie Simaga (Narrator)Josephine Baker (Self)Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Self)Simon Njami (Self)Sara Martins (Josephine Baker)Monia Douieb (Speaker)Colette Sodoyez (Speaker)

Director

Ilana Navaro

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Synopsis

How did a poor little Black girl from Missouri become the Queen of Paris, before joining the French Resistance and finally creating her dream family "The Rainbow Tribe", adopting twelve children from four corners of the world? This is the fabulous story of the first Black superstar, Josephine Baker.

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