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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Overview
Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.
Director and 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)
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