The Soul of a Man

For other uses, see Soul of a Man (disambiguation).

Soul of a Man
Directed by	Wim Wenders
Written by	Wim Wenders
Produced by	Martin Scorsese
Cinematography	Lisa Rinzler
Edited by	Mathilde Bonnefoy
Music by	Skip James Blind Willie Johnson J. B. Lenoir
Distributed by	PBS
Release date	2003 (2003)
Countries	United States Germany
Language	English

The Soul of a Man is a 2003 documentary film, directed by Wim Wenders, as the second instalment of the documentary film series The Blues, produced by Martin Scorsese. The film explores the musical careers of blues musicians Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir.

The film is narrated by Laurence Fishburne in character as Blind Willie Johnson, and features performances by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Beck, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, James 'Blood' Ulmer, T-Bone Burnett, Eagle Eye Cherry, Shemekia Copeland, Garland Jeffreys, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Los Lobos, Bonnie Raitt, Lou Reed, Marc Ribot, Lucinda Williams, and Cassandra Wilson. The film won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming, and the Audience Award at the São Paulo International Film Festival. It was also screened out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.

External links

• Information on Wim Wender's official site
• Information on the PBS site
• The Soul of a Man at IMDb
• Excerpt of the film (QuickTime, 15 MB) Blind Willie Johnson (played by Chris Thomas King) performs "Trouble (Will) Soon Be Over"
• Bransford, Steve. "Gold Records in Deep Space." Southern Spaces, November 3, 2008, http://southernspaces.org/2008/gold-records-deep-space.