Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

7.8

French/150 min./2024

Genres

Documentary History

Synopsis

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.

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