Sweet Sweetback 1971

Stars: Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales

Release Date: 22 March 1973 (Netherlands)

Alternative name: Sweet Sweetback

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Description: Melvin Van Peebles wrote, directed, produced, edited, composed and starred in this powerful and inflammatory attack on White America. After the body of a black man is discovered, Sweetback helps two white 'acquaintances' in the police force to look good by agreeing to go with them to the station as a suspect. But he is forced to go on the run after brutally attacking the two policemen when they arrest and beat up a young black man.