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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

By Johan Grimonprez

2024

Documentary

2h30

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Synopsis

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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Casting

Johan Grimonprez

Johan Grimonprez

Director

PA

Patrice Lumumba

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

DI

Dizzy Gillespie

Self (archive footage)

AB

Abbey Lincoln

Self (archive footage)

MA

Max Roach

Self (archive footage)

Nina Simone

Nina Simone

Self (archive footage)

JO

John Coltrane

Self (archive footage)

DU

Duke Ellington

Self (archive footage)

NI

Nikita Khrushchev

Self (archive footage)

MA

Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba

Self (archive footage)

DW

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

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