{"id":21113,"date":"2025-01-25T03:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T03:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=21113"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:34:02","slug":"soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D&#8217;ETAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-21114\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/soundtrack-to-a-coup-d-etat-237x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/soundtrack-to-a-coup-d-etat-237x350.jpg 237w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/soundtrack-to-a-coup-d-etat-600x887.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/soundtrack-to-a-coup-d-etat.jpg 692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/h2>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<h2>SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D&#8217;ETAT<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2024 &#8211; 150&#8242; &#8211; A France\/Belgium\/Netherlands co-production &#8211; Documentary, Music &amp; Dance,<br \/>\nWritten by: Johan Grimonprez.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Johan Grimonprez.<br \/>\nStarring: Louis Armstrong, Andr\u00e9e Blouin, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Patrice Lumumba,<br \/>\nNina Simone, Malcolm X.<br \/>\nOfficial Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024. Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary Feature Film 2025.<br \/>\nIn English, in French, Dutch &amp; Russian with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA Kino Lorber\u00a0release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo\u2019s leader Patrice Lumumba. Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons,\u00a0Soundtrack to a Coup d\u2019Etat\u00a0interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today\u2019s geopolitical climate.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/athome.fandango.com\/content\/browse\/details\/Soundtrack-to-a-Coup-d-Etat\/3871318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch now<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D&#8217;ETAT | 2024 &#8211; 150&#8242; &#8211; A France\/Belgium\/Netherlands co-production &#8211; Documentary, Music &amp; Dance, Written by: Johan Grimonprez. Directed by:\u00a0Johan Grimonprez. Starring: Louis Armstrong, Andr\u00e9e Blouin, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Patrice Lumumba, Nina Simone, Malcolm X. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024. 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