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.

Keywords

  • Belgian Docs
  • Black History Month
  • European Film Awards
  • Music & Cinema
  • San Sebastian Film Festival
  • Sooner team's favourite movies of 2024
  • Sundance Film Festival !
  • politics

Actors

  • Patrice Lumumba
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Dizzy Gillespie
  • Abbey Lincoln
  • Max Roach

Director

  • Johan Grimonprez

Documentary


2h 30min


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Belgium
France
Netherlands
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.

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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