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Welcome Home Brother Charles / Emma Mae
Vinegar Syndrome
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Edition & Specifications
FormatBlu-ray + DVD
EditionStandard
ConditionNew & Sealed
RegionRegion A
Studio / LabelVinegar Syndrome
Premium LabelVinegar Syndrome
Disc Count1
Description
Sold Out / OOP Before directing the legendary PENITENTIARY trilogy, Jamaa Fanaka helmed these two offbeat genre films, which helped catapult him to recognition as one of the most important black filmmakers working in 70s independent cinema. In Fanaka's debut feature, WELCOME HOME BROTHER CHARLES, a young black man is sent to prison, after being brutalized by a corrupt racist cop. Upon release, he takes deadly revenge against the cops, lawyers, and thugs who got him busted, using a most unusual weapon... As much a parody of exploitation films as it is a proud piece of genre cinema, BROTHER CHAR