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Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

78 %|Sep 11, 2024|Documentary, History

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.

Featured Crew

Johan Grimonprez
Director
Rik Chaubet
Editor
Ranko Pauković
Sound
Daan Milius
Producer
Rémi Grellety
Producer
Johan Grimonprez
Writer
Raydrick Feliciana
Assistant Editor
Aaron Minnebo
Assistant Editor

Cast

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Patrice Lumumba
Self (archive footage)
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Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
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Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
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Abbey Lincoln
Self (archive footage)
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Max Roach
Self (archive footage)
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Nina Simone
Self (archive footage)
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John Coltrane
Self (archive footage)
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Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
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Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
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Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
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Miriam Makeba
Self (archive footage)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
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Andrée Blouin
Self (archive footage)
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René Magritte
Self (archive footage)
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Allen Dulles
Self (archive footage)
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
Self (archive footage)
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Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
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Conor Cruise O’Brien
Self (archive footage)