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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

DirectorJohan Grimonprez

CastsPatrice Lumumba, Dag Hammarskjöld, Louis Armstrong, Nikita Khrushchev, Dizzy Gillespie, In Koli Jean Bofane, Larry Devlin, Andrée Blouin, Abbey Lincoln, Malcolm X, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Leonid Brezhnev, Pau Casals, Fidel Castro, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Willis Conover

Duration150 minutes

GenreDocumentary

Synopsis

Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.

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