Watch trailer for Soundtrack to a Coup d’État
Watch trailer
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État
Dates with showtimes for Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
Today, Dec 7
- Today, Dec 7
- Sun, Dec 8
- Wed, Dec 11
Director: Johan Grimonprez Run Time: 150 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Abbey Lincoln, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Max Roach, Patrice Lumumba
Opens Friday, Dec 6th
In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.