Soundtrack to a Coup d'État Poster
Patrice LumumbaSelf (archive footage)
Louis ArmstrongSelf (archive footage)
Dizzy GillespieSelf (archive footage)
Abbey LincolnSelf (archive footage)
Max RoachSelf (archive footage)
Nina SimoneSelf (archive footage)
John ColtraneSelf (archive footage)
Duke EllingtonSelf (archive footage)
Nikita KhrushchevSelf (archive footage)
Malcolm XSelf (archive footage)
Dwight D. EisenhowerSelf (archive footage)
Miriam MakebaSelf (archive footage)
Andrée BlouinSelf (archive footage)

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

Johan Grimonprez · 2024 · 150 minutes · Belgium, Belgium, Belgium, Belgium, France
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État Poster

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.

Patrice LumumbaSelf (archive footage)
Louis ArmstrongSelf (archive footage)
Dizzy GillespieSelf (archive footage)
Abbey LincolnSelf (archive footage)
Max RoachSelf (archive footage)
Nina SimoneSelf (archive footage)
John ColtraneSelf (archive footage)
Duke EllingtonSelf (archive footage)
Nikita KhrushchevSelf (archive footage)
Malcolm XSelf (archive footage)
Dwight D. EisenhowerSelf (archive footage)
Miriam MakebaSelf (archive footage)
Andrée BlouinSelf (archive footage)
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