Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat - Official Trailer

Jazz and decolonization 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, a political earthquake that 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 excerpts from My Country, Africa by Andrée Blouin (narrated by Marie Daulne aka Zap Mama), Congo Inc. by In Koli Jean Bofane, To Katanga and Back by Conor Cruise O’Brien (narrated by Patrick Cruise O’Brien), and audio memoirs by Nikita Khrushchev
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One of the most unusual and best documentaries I've ever seen.

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How can we see this film?

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Kino just bought distribution rights

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With all the dumb fake AI movie trailers on UA-cam, I hope this is a real movie because I want to see it!!

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I saw it tonight and it's incredible! The trailer is kind of deceptive about just how dark the topic is...colonialism, a CIA organized oup, assassination of a legitimate leader and mass murder in the 1950/1960 that's still having consequences today.