Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

Name: Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Released: 2024-09-11
Duration: 2 h 30 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Patrice Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Nikita Khrushchev, Dizzy Gillespie, Andrée Blouin

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (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, Music

Budget

Revenue

$434 267

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Director

Johan Grimonprez

Actors

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

Johan Grimonprez

Producer

Rémi Grellety, Daan Milius

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Editing

Rik Chaubet
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Short description

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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