• Sep 11, 2024
  • 150 min
  • Full-HD

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)

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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Belgium France Netherlands
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Onomatopee Films Warboys Films

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)

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