Looking for Langston

1988
Drama

Combining archival footage of Harlem's Cotton Club with photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, staged set pieces, fantasy sequences and an invented love story, director Isaac Julien provides a powerful meditation on the life of poet Langston Hughes.

Starring: Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, John Wilson

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British, Drama Movies, Independent Movies, Movies Based on Real Life

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Drama, Independent, British, Based on Real Life, Movie

Cast

Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, John Wilson, Akim Mogaji, Dencil Williams, Guy Burgess, James Dublin, Jimmy Somerville, Harry Donaldson

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