Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
Johan Grimonprez2024-09-11
7.75
150 min
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.
Cast
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Patrice Lumumba | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Louis Armstrong | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Dizzy Gillespie | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Abbey Lincoln | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Max Roach | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Nina Simone | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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John Coltrane | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Duke Ellington | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Nikita Khrushchev | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Malcolm X | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Andrée Blouin | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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René Magritte | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Allen Dulles | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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In Koli Jean Bofane | Self | Unowned |