Monk & Pannonica: An American Story
MovieTitle | Monk, Pannonica et les jazzmen |
User score | 8 |
Release date | Apr 24, 2022 |
Genre | Documentary, History, TV Movie |
Director | Jacques Goldstein |
Production country | France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland |
Production companies | CFRT, a_BAHN, Histoire TV, ARTE GEIE, RSI |
Run time | 55 min. |
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.