Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Name: Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Director: Johan Grimonprez
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2024-09-11T
Duration: 150 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Patrice Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach

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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.

Actor: Patrice Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Nikita Khrushchev, Malcolm X

Director: Johan Grimonprez

Years: 2024

Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands

Quality: HD

Production: Onomatopee Films, Warboys Films, Zap-O-Matik, ZKM Karlsruhe, BALDR, RTBF, VRT

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

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