Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Overview
Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.
- Revenue
- $311,457
- Production
- Onomatopee Films, Warboys Films, Zap-O-Matik, ZKM Karlsruhe, BALDR Film, RTBF, VRT
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Cast
Patrice Lumumba
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
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)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
René Magritte
Self (archive footage)
Allen Dulles
Self (archive footage)
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
Crew
- Director
- Johan Grimonprez
- Writers
- Johan Grimonprez
- Producers
- Rémi Grellety,Daan Milius
- Cinematography
- Jonathan Wannyn
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CinemaSerf
November 23, 2024
This documentary is a serious testament to the archivist's art as it pieces together an impressive array of imagery of the great and the good of American Jazz and combines that with some intimate actuality of the turbulence ongoing in the Congo as it strived for independence. Why might anyone care about the future of an impoverished African nation that had all but bankrupted it's "owner" - King Leopold II of Belgium? Well that's because it holds enormous deposits of the uranium required by both …
Brent Marchant
January 9, 2025
Perhaps the most important objective of a documentary is to shed light on a subject and make it comprehensible and insightful for viewers, especially when it involves little-known material. However, when it comes to writer-director Johan Grimonprez’s latest offering, that goal is sorely compromised in multiple respects. The film examines (or, more precisely, attempts to examine) the complex history of the Congo’s struggle for independence from its Belgian colonial masters and the emergence of Pr…