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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Film / 2024

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Directed by Johan Grimonprez
DocumentaryHistoryMusic

★ 7.7/10Audience rating

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.

The story

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.

Cast

Patrice LumumbaSelf (archive footage) Louis ArmstrongSelf (archive footage) Nikita KhrushchevSelf (archive footage) Dizzy GillespieSelf (archive footage) Andrée BlouinSelf (archive footage) Abbey LincolnSelf (archive footage) Max RoachSelf (archive footage) Malcolm XSelf (archive footage) Nina SimoneSelf (archive footage) John ColtraneSelf (archive footage) Duke EllingtonSelf (archive footage) Miriam MakebaSelf (archive footage)
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Conor Cruise O’BrienSelf (archive footage) Dwight D. EisenhowerSelf (archive footage) René MagritteSelf (archive footage) Allen DullesSelf (archive footage) In Koli Jean BofaneSelf Gamal Abdel NasserSelf (archive footage) Fidel CastroSelf (archive footage)

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