Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
In 1960 de Verenigde Naties: het Zuiden veroorzaken een politieke aardbeving, de muzikanten Abbey Lincoln en Max Roach crashen de Veiligheidsraad, Nikita Chroesjtsjov slaat met zijn schoen en hekelt de Amerikaanse kleurenbalk, terwijl de VS jazzambassadeur Louis Armstrong naar Congo sturen om de aandacht af te leiden van zijn eerste Afrikaanse postkoloniale staatsgreep.
- Jaar: 2024
- Land: Belgium, France, Netherlands
- Genre: Documentaire, Historisch
- Studio: Onomatopee Films, Warboys Films, Zap-O-Matik, ZKM Karlsruhe, BALDR, RTBF, VRT
- Trefwoord: central intelligence agency (cia), war crimes, cold war, congo, coup d'etat, belgium, fidel castro, genocide, united nations, american embassy, u.s. embassy, 1960s, ex-cia agent, katanga conflict, malcom x, democratic republic of the congo, eisenhower, belgian air force, dag hammarskjöld, cia agent, u.n. secretary general, congo war, patrice lumumba, cia officer, max roach, cia crimes, cia war crimes, usa war crimes, belgian war crimes, nato war crimes, operation gladio, nikita khrushchev, abbey lincoln, cia operatives, louis armstrong, patrice lumumba is brutally assassinated, patrice lumumba brutal assassination, cia brutal assassination, cia brutal murders, belgian brutal murders, general mobutu, joseph-désiré mobutu, mobutu war crimes, mobutu's bandits, brutally tortured their prisoners, journalists bought executions, nato operation, nato involvement, eisenhower war crimes, moïse tshombe, moïse tshombe war crimes, katanga mine, american ambassador, american ambassador involved, american embassy involved, belgian colonizers, american and belgian colonizers, american colonizers, ussr presents resolution to end colonialism, resolution to end colonialism, death to colonial slavery, u.n. general assembly, declaration against colonialism, declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples, general assembly resolution 1514, dag hammarskjöld murder, u.n. resolution 929, u.n. only observes, costs $2 billion per month, maurice mpolo, joseph okito, belgian military, paramilitary personnel and mercenaries not with the un, foreign military, andree blouin, in koli jean bofane, allen dulles, allen dulles cia director, cia a crime syndicate, south african mercenary
- Regisseur: Johan Grimonprez
- Gips: Patrice Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, Nina Simone
