Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)

Poster for Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Johan Grimonprez
  • Profile picture of Patrice Lumumba
    Self (archive footage) Patrice Lumumba
  • Profile picture of Louis Armstrong
    Self (archive footage) Louis Armstrong
  • Profile picture of Dizzy Gillespie
    Self (archive footage) Dizzy Gillespie
  • Profile picture of Abbey Lincoln
    Self (archive footage) Abbey Lincoln
  • Profile picture of Nina Simone
    Self (archive footage) Nina Simone
  • Profile picture of John Coltrane
    Self (archive footage) John Coltrane
  • Profile picture of Duke Ellington
    Self (archive footage) Duke Ellington
  • Profile picture of Nikita Khrushchev
    Self (archive footage) Nikita Khrushchev

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