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Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

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On DVD/Blu-ray: January 7, 2025

Documentary | 2h 30m

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

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.

Director: Johan Grimonprez
Studio: Kino Lorber
Writer(s): Johan Grimonprez
Official Site: kinolorber.com/film/soundtrack-to-a-coup-d-etat