Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
By Johan Grimonprez
2024
Documentary / History
2h30
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
By Johan Grimonprez
2024
Documentary / History
2h30
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Synopsis
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.
