Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
Johan Grimonprez, Belgium, France, Netherlands, 2024o
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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.
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Genre
Documentary , Period piece
Running time
150 Min.
Original languages
English, Arabic, French, Dutch, Russian Ratings
Cast & Crewo
Patrice LumumbaSelf (archive footage)
Louis ArmstrongSelf (archive footage)
Dizzy GillespieSelf (archive footage)