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Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 24, 2022

Runtime

0h 55m

Genres

Documentary, History, TV Movie

User Score

80%

Original Title

Monk, Pannonica et les jazzmen

Production Companies

CFRT, a_BAHN, Histoire TV, ARTE GEIE, RSI

Director

Jacques Goldstein

Description

Paris, 1954. The story of the meeting, known thanks to the fortuitous discovery of a forgotten notebook, full of notes and photographs, between a white British aristocrat, Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, writer and jazz patron, and a talented black pianist, Thelonious Monk, one of the best bebop jazz musicians of all time; a prodigious union of wills that overcame the most extreme prejudices of the very conservative US society.