Johan Grimonprez
Director
2h 30m
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)
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.76%
Cast
Patrice Lumumba
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Abbey Lincoln
Self (archive footage)
Max Roach
Self (archive footage)
Nina Simone
Self (archive footage)
John Coltrane
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Miriam Makeba
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
Patrice Lumumba
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Abbey Lincoln
Self (archive footage)
Max Roach
Self (archive footage)
Nina Simone
Self (archive footage)
John Coltrane
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Miriam Makeba
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
Extra
Release Date
September 11, 2024Original Language
Arabic, Dutch, English, FrenchBudget
$0.00Production Company
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