Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (2024)

Cast: Louis Armstrong, Andrée Blouin, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Patrice Lumumba, Nina Simone, Malcolm X

Director: Johan Grimonprez

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.

Rating: NR
Runtime: 180 mins
Theater Date: November 1, 2024
Genre: Documentary Distributor: Kino Lorber

VOD Release Date: January 7, 2025 SVOD Release Date: TBA