Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

2h 30m
DocumentaryHistoryMusic
7.7

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
Rémi Grellety
Producer
Daan Milius
Producer
Ranko Pauković
Sound

Recommendations

view all
Eichmann
The Courier
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Snowden
Northwest Passage
Another Day of Life
Thirteen Days
Official Secrets
When We Were Kings
JFK
Harriet
Zulu Dawn
Che: Part One
The Phenomenon
The Judge and the Assassin
Richard Jewell
The Molly Maguires
An Officer and a Spy
Wormwood
O.J.: Made in America