Rent Soundtrack to a Coup D'etat (2024)
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2h 30min
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- Synopsis:
Jazz and decolonisation are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. It is 1961, six months after the admission of sixteen newly independent African countries to the UN, and a political earthquake shifts the majority vote from the colonial powers to the Global South. As Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe in indignation at the UN's complicity in the overthrow of Lumumba, the US State Department swings into action by sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Featuring footage with Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Malcolm X and Nikita Khrushchev. - Actors:
- Patrice Lumumba, Dag Hammarskjöld, Louis Armstrong, Nikita Khrushchev, Dizzy Gillespie, In Koli Jean Bofane, Larry Devlin, Andrée Blouin, Abbey Lincoln, Malcolm X, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Leonid Brezhnev, Pau Casals, Fidel Castro, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Willis Conover, Miles Davis, Allen Dulles
- Directors:
- Johan Grimonprez
- Producers:
- Rémi Grellety, Daan Milius
- Writers:
- Johan Grimonprez, Daan Milius
- Aka:
- Bande-son pour un coup d'État
- Studio:
- Modern Films
- Genres:
- Documentary, Music & Musicals, Special Interest
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 22/12/2025
- Run Time:
- 150 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- UK Trailer
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