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SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT

By Johan GRIMONPREZ

Documentary - Completed 2024

The post-colonial struggle for Congo’s resources, told from the unique perspective of Andrée Blouin, a neglected pioneer of female emancipation and independence throughout Africa.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- BELGIUM
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH, RUSSIAN, DUTCH
- Duration
- 150 mn
- Director(s)
- Johan GRIMONPREZ
- Writer(s)
- Johan GRIMONPREZ
- Producer(s)
- Daan MILIUS (Onomatopee Films)
- Synopsis
- In 1960, sixteen newly independent African countries enter the United Nations, a political earthquake that shifts the majority vote from the colonial powers to the global south. 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 decolonization.