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Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true ...
- $9.1 million
- Malik Bendjelloul
- Rodriguez
- Sixto Rodriguez
Jul 26, 2012 · Searching for Sugar Man: Directed by Malik Bendjelloul. With Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman, Dennis Coffey, Mike Theodore, Dan DiMaggio. Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.
- (72K)
- Documentary, Biography, Music
- Malik Bendjelloul
- 2012-07-26
Decades after Detroit singer-songwriter Rodriguez disappeared following the commercial failure of his albums, two fans try to track down their idol. Watch trailers & learn more.
- 85
- 2012
- Rodriguez
- Malik Bendjelloul
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PG-13. YouTube Movies & TV. 181M subscribers. Subscribed. 1.7K. Searching for Sugar Man tells the incredible true story of Rodriguez, the greatest '70s rock icon who never was. After being...
Aug 8, 2012 · "Searching for Sugar Man" is a documentary that enlists us in the process of its search. Using archival footage, it shows both Segerman and Bendjelloul pressing ahead in a quest that became increasingly frustrating.
A fascinating portrait of a forgotten musical pioneer, Searching for Sugar Man is by turns informative and mysterious. Though he faded into obscurity in the U.S., an early '70s musician...
- (134)
- Documentary
- PG-13