Poster of Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

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.

Release Date: 2024-09-11

Original Language: fr

Genres: Unknown Genre

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Cast Members

Patrice Lumumba

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

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Dizzy Gillespie

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Abbey Lincoln

Self (archive footage)

Max Roach

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Nina Simone

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John Coltrane

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Duke Ellington

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Malcolm X

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Miriam Makeba

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Andrée Blouin

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René Magritte

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Allen Dulles

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

Self (archive footage)

Fidel Castro

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Conor Cruise O’Brien

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