Strange Fruit

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• Genre(s): Musical, Documentary
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Joel Katz
• Cast(s): Pete Seeger, Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg, Billie Holiday, Cassandra Wilson See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 57min
• Award(s): Audience 2003 (Won) Awards List
• Similar To: Lainey Wilson: Keepin' Country Cool, Noah Kahan: Out of Body
• Story:
  In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled "Strange Fruit" that begins with the words: "Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root." He set the poem to music and a few years later convinced Billy holiday to record it in a legendary heartbreaking performance. Intertwining jazz genealogy, biography, performance footage, and the history of lynching, director Joel Katz fashions a fascinating discovery of the lost story behind a true American classic. Written by Excerpted from Coolidge Corner Theatre Program Update
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