Synopsis

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.
Johan Grimonprez
Patrice Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Nikita Khrushchev, Malcolm X, Miriam Makeba, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Andrée Blouin, René Magritte, Allen Dulles, In Koli Jean Bofane, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Fidel Castro, Conor Cruise O’Brien
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