The Soul of a Man

In "The Soul of A Man," director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his favorite blues artists: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. Part history, part personal pilgrimage, the film tells the story of these lives in music through an extended fictional film sequence (recreations of '20s and '30s events - shot in silent-film, hand-crank style), rare archival footage, present-day documentary scenes and covers of their songs by contemporary musicians such as Shemekia Copeland, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garland Jeffreys, Chris Thomas King, Cassandra Wilson, Nick Cave, Los Lobos, Eagle Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid, James "Blood" Ulmer, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Marc Ribot, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lucinda Williams and T-Bone Burnett.

Full Cast of The Soul of a Man

Laurence Fishburne as Self - Narrator

Laurence Fishburne

as Self - Narrator

Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor and producer. He has been critically hailed for...

Keith B. Brown

as Skip James

Skip James

as Self (archive footage)
T Bone Burnett as Self

T Bone Burnett

as Self

Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter.

Cassandra Wilson

as Self

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