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Soundtrack To A Coup D'Etat (France-Belguim) Narration in English.

Mon, 14 Oct

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Caloundra

Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo's leader Patrice Lu "Mind blowing." Harper's Bazaar.

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Soundtrack To A Coup D'Etat (France-Belguim) Narration in English.
Soundtrack To A Coup D'Etat (France-Belguim) Narration in English.

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14 Oct 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Caloundra, 2/11 Bulcock St, Caloundra QLD 4551, Australia

About the Event

Soundtrack To A Coup d'Etat  film Trailer HERE 

15+    150Min 

Director: Johan Grimonprez


US jazz collides with Cold War colonial crimes in this electrifying film examining the CIA’s complicity in state-sanctioned murder – and its use of popular music to cover its tracks.  It's the documentary cousin to the Swedish biopic Hammarsskjold. Fight For Peace. 


It’s 1960's and as the US civil rights movement swings into high gear, in Africa another movement is taking place: decolonisation. Among the 17 nations to achieve independence during the ‘year of Africa’ is the Congo. But only months after becoming the former Belgian colony’s first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba is assassinated. In an effort to deflect attention from the CIA’s apparent involvement in the coup against him, the US turns to jazz – sending Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and more to the Congo as unwitting ‘ambassadors’. It does not go…


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