SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ÉTAT

By Johan GRIMONPREZ

FIPADOC - INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, BIARRITZ - as FEST

Documentary - Completed 2024


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FIPADOC 2025
Musical Documentary
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • BELGIUM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 150 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Johan GRIMONPREZ
    • Synopsis
    • In 1960, sixteen newly independent African countries joined the UN. In the midst of the Cold War, it was a geopolitical earthquake. Suddenly, from the Congo to New York, jazz stars such as Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, and Dizzy Gillespie burst into the arena of decolonization, mingling with politicians: Khrushchev, Lumumba, the CIA director...