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Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)
Directed by Johan Grimonprez
Overview
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.
Length 150 minutes
Actors
Patrice Lumumba | Louis Armstrong | Dizzy Gillespie | Abbey Lincoln | Max Roach | Nina Simone | John Coltrane | Duke Ellington | Nikita Khrushchev | Malcolm X | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Andrée Blouin | René Magritte | Allen Dulles | In Koli Jean Bofane