Soul Power

 

To unearth is the key verb for documentaries that make history. In Soul Power, however, the footage shot in Zaire in 1974 and reorganized by Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, doesn't expect to shed light on any other truth than how it was possible for the great geniuses of rhythm & blues and soul to gather there while the famous fight of the century between Ali and Foreman was taking place. In the origins of Soul Power is precisely Leon Gast's 1996 documentary When We Were Kings, about that mythical fight, [...]

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93 min

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