Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

2024, documentary, history

150 minutes

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...

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Cast

Patrice Lumumba

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

Self (archive footage)

Abbey Lincoln

Abbey Lincoln

Self (archive footage)

Max Roach

Self (archive footage)

Nina Simone

Self (archive footage)

John Coltrane

John Coltrane

Self (archive footage)

Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

Self (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev

Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X

Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba

Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

Andrée Blouin

Self (archive footage)

René Magritte

René Magritte

Self (archive footage)

Allen Dulles

Self (archive footage)

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Self (archive footage)

Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

Self (archive footage)

Conor Cruise O’Brien

Self (archive footage)

Crew

Directing

Johan Grimonprez

Director

Editing

Rik Chaubet

Editor

Production

Rémi Grellety

Producer

Daan Milius

Producer

Sound

Writing

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