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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Cert TBC)

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Cert TBC)

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Thu 9 Jan 2025, 7:30pm

In 1960, sixteen newly independent African countries enter the United Nations. Congo becomes the arena in which the battle over the UN is fought. As Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at the UN-top in reaction to the neo-colonial grab of the resources of newly independent Congo, UN delegates from African Countries are blackmailed. In an incredulous twist Patrice Lumumba’s assassination unites the Afro-Asian block, demanding the UN General Assembly to vote for immediate worldwide decolonisation. In this highly explosive context, the United States government dispatches Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Nina Simone as Jazz Ambassadors around the world – as a diversion from CIA-backed coups.

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Directed by Johan Grimonprez
2hr 30 mins // BEL / FRA / NLD

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