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Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 11, 2024

Runtime

2h 30m

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

76%

Original Title

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

Production Companies

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

Director

Johan Grimonprez

Revenue

$210,501

Description

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.