Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.
Director: Johan Grimonprez
Writer: Johan Grimonprez
Trailer
Cast
Patrice Lumumba
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Andrée Blouin
Self (archive footage)
Abbey Lincoln
Self (archive footage)
Max Roach
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Nina Simone
Self (archive footage)
John Coltrane
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Miriam Makeba
Self (archive footage)
You may also like
The Spiral
1976
Untitled Cher Biopic
Kuban Cossacks. And Already Two Hundred Years...
1992
Art of Destruction
2026
The Collaborator
2007
Love and Sex in West Africa
2022
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983
Thirteen Days
2000
Selma
2014
Stonewall
2015
Doctors of the Dark Side
2011