Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)

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.

Cast

Self (archive footage)
Patrice Lumumba
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
A Andrée Blouin
Self (archive footage)
René Magritte
Self (archive footage)
Allen Dulles
Self
I In Koli Jean Bofane
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Abbey Lincoln
Self (archive footage)
M Max Roach
Self (archive footage)
Nina Simone
Self (archive footage)
John Coltrane
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X

Crew

Director
Johan Grimonprez
Editor
R Rik Chaubet
Sound
Ranko Pauković
Producer
D Daan Milius
Producer
Rémi Grellety
Writer
Johan Grimonprez
Assistant Editor
Raydrick Feliciana
Assistant Editor
A Aaron Minnebo
Assistant Editor
P Pedro Gossler