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Max Roach

Actor

Films

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

By Johan Grimonprez

2024 | 150 min | Documentary

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.