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Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
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Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening

2018
Directed byIlana Navaro
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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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Josephine BakerSelf (archive footage)Léonie SimagaNarrator (voice)
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Sara Martins
Josephine Baker (voice)
Tracy Denean Sharpley-WhitingSelf
Simon NjamiSelf
Margo JeffersonSelf
Katja AmbergerSelf (voice)
Monia DouiebSpeaker (voice)
Anke Solveig JeschkeSelf (voice)
Martin Luther King Jr.Self (archive footage)
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DocumentaryMusic
STATUSReleased
RATING
7.9

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