Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
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Director: Johan Grimonprez
Cast: Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Dizzy
Year: 2024
Duration: 150 mins
Certificate: 12A
"★★★★★ – a breathtaking, ideas-packed journey that weaves together American jazz and the geopolitical machinations of the 1950s and 60s" – Observer
"★★★★ – riveting" – Little White Lies
★★★★ – Guardian
★★★★ – Time Out
Winner of the Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary for Cinematic Innovation, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is an audacious documentary that intertwines jazz and politics and crackles with energy.
From the producer of I Am Not Your Negro, this jaw-dropping film forensically investigates the cold (and cool) war of the 1960s, taking in US imperialism, post-war jazz and Pan-African decolonisation in a rollercoaster ride that features Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Malcolm X, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, and many more....
Parts in French, Russian, Dutch are subtitled in English.