Soundtrack To A Coup D'Etat

Directed by Johan Grimonprez

Constructed entirely from archive footage, Soundtrack To A Coup D’Etat is an impressive cinema essay fusing Jazz and African decolonisation in an historical rollercoaster told through a quartet of voices from an activist, a diplomat, a writer and a world leader.

Featuring Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus providing the soundtrack and Malcolm X,  Nikita Khrushchev, and many more providing the eye-opening world-politics of the cold war era.