Country: USA
Year: 1969
Duration: 100'
Jeff is a young and dynamic insurance agent. He is a happily married father of two children. He is also a racist. In spite of this, he wakes up one fine morning and finds out to his dismay that he has turned black. A specialist reveals to him that this condition is due to the presence of a black man among his ancestors and that the condition is irreversible. From that moment on, all of them his wife, his friends, and his colleagues turn their backs to him. He curses the injustices of a society based on racial prejudices and decides to be selfsufficient, opening up his own insurance agency.
Biography
film director
Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles was born in 1932 in Chicago. He served as a flight navigator for three in the US Air Force. After the military, he spent brief stints in Mexico where he worked as a portrait painter. He moved to Paris in the early 1960s. In 1967 he returned to the United States as a French delegate to the San Francisco Film Festival, with his first feature lenght film, La Permission. Van Peebles has become an iconic presence to the younger generation of black and indie filmmakers.
FILMOGRAFIA
Cinq Cent Balles (1963), La Permission (1968), Watermelon Man (1969), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971), Don't Play Us Cheap (1973), Identity Crisis (1990), Vroom Vroom Vroom (1994), Le Conte du ventre plein (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Regia e musica: Melvin Van Peebles.
Screenplay: Herman Raucher.
Director of photography: W. Wallace Kelley.
Editor: Karl Kress.
Cast: Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Kay Kimberly, Kay E. Hunter, Mantan Moreland, Scott Garrett, Erin Moran, Irving Selbts.
Production company: John B. Bennett, Leon Murell per Columbia Pictures/Johanna Prod.
Screenplay: Herman Raucher.
Director of photography: W. Wallace Kelley.
Editor: Karl Kress.
Cast: Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Kay Kimberly, Kay E. Hunter, Mantan Moreland, Scott Garrett, Erin Moran, Irving Selbts.
Production company: John B. Bennett, Leon Murell per Columbia Pictures/Johanna Prod.