Dir: Johan Grimonprez
Featuring Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillepsie
150 mins

Winner of the Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary for Cinematic Innovation, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is audacious documentary that intertwines jazz and politics and crackles with energy.

Jazz and decolonisation fuse in this upbeat historical rollercoaster, set through a quartet of voices from an activist, a diplomat, a writer and a world leader. From the producer of I Am Not Your Negro.

Starring Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Malcolm X and Nikita Khrushchev, and many more…

“A remarkable film – exhaustive, informative and rigorously researched, but also crackling with energy, ideas and formal daring” Screen International

“A vibrant, jazz-led history lesson on colonial machinations in the Congo” IndieWire

“A mind-blowingly rich tapestry of research, music, and the jazziest history lesson imaginable, with freewheeling beats and riffs echoing into
today with urgent purpose” Harper’s Bazaar

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