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Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

78% | Sep 11, 2024 | Documentary, History

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.

Featured Crew

Johan Grimonprez
Director
Ranko Pauković
Sound

Cast

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Patrice Lumumba
Self (archive footage)
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Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
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Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
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Abbey Lincoln
Self (archive footage)
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Max Roach
Self (archive footage)

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