Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

2h 30m

Documentary History Music

7.6

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.

Cast

Patrice Lumumba

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

Self (archive footage)

Dizzy Gillespie

Self (archive footage)

Andrée Blouin

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)

Conor Cruise O’Brien

Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

René Magritte

Self (archive footage)

Allen Dulles

Self (archive footage)

In Koli Jean Bofane

Self

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Self (archive footage)

Fidel Castro

Self (archive footage)

Crew

Johan Grimonprez

Director, Writer

Rik Chaubet

Editor

Raydrick Feliciana

Assistant Editor

Aaron Minnebo

Assistant Editor

Pedro Gossler

Assistant Editor

Jonathan Wannyn

Cinematography

Daan Milius

Producer

Rémi Grellety

Producer

Ranko Pauković

Sound