Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)
2h 30m
Running Time
September 11, 2024Release Date
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)
2h 30m
Running Time
September 11, 2024Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Patrice Lumumba
Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
ArchiveFootage
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Abbey Lincoln
Self (archive footage)
Miles Davis
ArchiveFootage
Max Roach
Self (archive footage)
Nina Simone
Self (archive footage)
John Coltrane
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Leonid Brezhnev
ArchiveFootage
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
Andrée Blouin
Self (archive footage)
René Magritte
Self (archive footage)
Allen Dulles
Self (archive footage)
In Koli Jean Bofane
Self
Daan Milius
Producer
Johan Grimonprez
Director / Writer
Jonathan Wannyn
Cinematographer
Ranko Pauković
Sound
Rémi Grellety
Producer
Rik Chaubet
Editor
Daan Milius
Producer
Raydrick Feliciana
Assistant Editor
Aaron Minnebo
Assistant Editor
Pedro Gossler
Assistant Editor
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat is a 2024 documentary film directed by Johan Grimonprez about the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.
Featuring excerpts from “My Country, Africa” by Andrée Blouin (narrated by Marie Daulne aka Zap Mama), “Congo Inc.” by In Koli Jean Bofane, “To Katanga and Back,” by Conor Cruise O’Brien (narrated by Patrick Cruise O’Brien), and audio memoirs by Nikita Khrushchev.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is produced by Onomatopee Films and Warboys Films, in co-production with Zap-O-Matik, Baldr Film, ZKM Center For Art And Media Karlsruhe, RTBF and VRT.
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