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2025 Academy Award® Nominee – Best Documentary Feature Film
United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo’s leader Patrice Lumumba. Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today’s geopolitical climate.
Special Features:
• Q&A Panel with Director Johan Grimonprez (courtesy of the International Documentary Association)
• Trailers
MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
Package Dimensions : 7.48 x 5.35 x 0.51 inches; 3.52 ounces
Director : Johan Grimonprez
Media Format : DVD, NTSC
Run time : 2 hours and 30 minutes
Release date : January 7, 2025
Actors : Louis Armstrong, Andrée Blouin, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie
Dubbed: : Dutch, French, Russian
Subtitles: : English
Studio : Kino Lorber
ASIN : B0DMXBKL4G
Country of Origin : USA
Number of discs : 1