Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

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Director :

Johan Grimonprez

Stars :

Patrice LumumbaLouis ArmstrongDizzy GillespieAbbey LincolnMax RoachNina SimoneJohn ColtraneDuke EllingtonNikita KhrushchevMalcolm X

Genre :

DocumentaryHistory

Release :

2024-09-11

Story :

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.