Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)

Timing: 2:30 (150 min)

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Release date

2024-09-11

Country

Belgium, France, Netherlands

Production

RTBF, BALDR, VRT, Onomatopee Films, Warboys Films, Zap-O-Matik, ZKM Karlsruhe

Genre

Documentary, History

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Director

Johan Grimonprez

Actors

Patrice Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Nikita Khrushchev, Malcolm X
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Scenario

Johan Grimonprez

Producer

Rémi Grellety, Daan Milius

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Editing

Rik Chaubet
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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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