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Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
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Title: Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

Release Date: 11 Sep 2024

Runtime: 2h 30m

Genre: Documentary, History

Director: Onomatopee Films, Warboys Films, Zap-O-Matik, ZKM Karlsruhe, BALDR, RTBF, VRT

Production Companies: Onomatopee Films, Warboys Films, Zap-O-Matik, ZKM Karlsruhe, BALDR, RTBF, VRT

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.

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Average Vote: 7.625 (16 votes)

Cast

  • Self (archive footage): Patrice Lumumba
  • Self (archive footage): Louis Armstrong
  • Self (archive footage): Dizzy Gillespie
  • Self (archive footage): Abbey Lincoln
  • Self (archive footage): 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
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