Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (movie)
- User score: 8
- Production country: Belgium, France, Netherlands
- Producer: Johan Grimonprez
- Production companies: Onomatopee Films, Warboys Films
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Release date: 9/11/2024
- Run time: 150 min.
Movie 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.
