Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
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Jazz musicians and Cold War spies collide as Louis Armstrong's goodwill tour to Congo masks America's plot to assassinate Patrice Lumumba.
Why watch: Jazz musicians crash the UN to protest Lumumba's assassination.
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Cast
Patrice Lumumba as Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong as Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev as Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie as Self (archive footage)
Andrée Blouin as Self (archive footage)
Abbey Lincoln as Self (archive footage)
Max Roach as Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X as Self (archive footage)
Nina Simone as Self (archive footage)
John Coltrane as Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington as Self (archive footage)
Miriam Makeba as Self (archive footage)
Conor Cruise O’Brien as Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self (archive footage)
René Magritte as Self (archive footage)
Crew
Johan Grimonprez — Director
Johan Grimonprez — Writer
Rémi Grellety — Producer
Daan Milius — Producer
Jonathan Wannyn — Director of Photography
Rik Chaubet — Editor
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