The Sun's Gonna Shine (S)

1969 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

The Sun's Gonna Shine (S)
Short Film Music Documentary

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Folklorist/Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax called Blank’s stunning and elegiac short on Hopkins’ reminiscences of his youth “one of the three most important films on the South."

Direction Les Blank · Skip Gerson

Cast Lightnin' Hopkins

Cinematography Les Blank

Original title The Sun's Gonna Shine (S)

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Not rated (FilmAffinity)

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