Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)

  • NR
  • 01/24/2024 (US)
  • Documentary, History
  • 2h 30m

Overview

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.

Johan Grimonprez

Director, Writer

Cast

Patrice Lumumba's headshot

Patrice Lumumba

Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong's headshot

Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie's headshot

Dizzy Gillespie

Self (archive footage)
Abbey Lincoln's headshot

Abbey Lincoln

Self (archive footage)
Max Roach's headshot

Max Roach

Self (archive footage)
Nina Simone's headshot

Nina Simone

Self (archive footage)
John Coltrane's headshot

John Coltrane

Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington's headshot

Duke Ellington

Self (archive footage)

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