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  Darnell Martin

  regizor

• 
  Darnell Martin

  scenarist

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  Adrien Brody

  Leonard Chess
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  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Revetta Chess
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  Beyoncé

  Etta James
• 
  Cedric the Entertainer

  Willie Dixon
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  Tammy Blanchard

  Isabelle Allen
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  Jeffrey Wright

  Muddy Waters

• 
  Yasiin Bey

  Chuck Berry
• 
  Gabrielle Union

  Geneva Wade
• 
  Eamonn Walker
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  Tony Bentley

  Lomax
• 
  Jay O. Sanders

  dl. Feder
• 
  Jill Flint

  Shirley Feder
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  Rayan Lawrence

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  Albert Jones

  Hubert Sumlin
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  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Allan Freed
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  Columbus Short

  Little Walter
• 
  Eric Bogosian

  Alan Freed
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  Angelina Aucello
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  Chyna Layne

  Juanita
• 
  Evan Hart
• 
  Gano Grills
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  Derrick Simmons
• 
  Shiloh Fernandez

  Phil Chess
• 
  Norman Reedus

  Chess
• 
  Nate Jones
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  Tim Bellow
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  Douglas Crosby

  Policeman (Little Walter beating)
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  Joshua Alscher

  Mick Jagger
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  Marc Bonan

  Keith Richards
• 
  Veronika Dash

  Blonde Girl
• 
  Dexter Darden

  Geneva's Teenage Son
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  Eshaya Draper

  Charles Waters
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  Sean Shyboy Davis

  Toothless Hillbilly Little Walter (as Sean Davis)

• 
  Andrew Lack

  producător
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  Sofia Sondervan

  producător
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  Anastas N. Michos

  imagine
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  Petra Hoebel

  coproducator
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  Peter C. Frank

  montaj
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  Beyoncé

  producător executiv
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  Terence Blanchard

  coloană sonoră