SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT
In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the US dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
Director:
Johan Grimonprez
Producers:
Daan Milius, Rémi Grellety
Country of Origin:
Belgium/France/Netherlands
Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition
More Info:
Grimonprez makes his return to Sundance following DOUBLE TAKE.
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