Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

09/11/2024

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2hrs 30min

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Documentary

,History

STORY

In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Patrice Lumumba
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Dizzy Gillespie
  • Abbey Lincoln
  • Max Roach

    Director

  • Johan Grimonprez

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Onomatopee Films
  • Warboys Films
  • Zap-O-Matik
  • ZKM Karlsruhe
  • BALDR
  • RTBF
  • VRT

    Production Countries

  • Belgium
  • France
  • Netherlands

LANGUAGES

  • Arabic
  • Dutch
  • English
  • French
  • Russian

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