Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

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.

Genre: Documentary , History

Actor: Patrice Lumumba , Louis Armstrong , Dizzy Gillespie , Abbey Lincoln , Max Roach , Nina Simone , John Coltrane , Duke Ellington , Nikita Khrushchev

Director: Johan Grimonprez

Country: Belgium , France , Netherlands

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Duration: 2h 30m

Release: 2024

IMDb: 7.8/10

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