Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

In 1960, sixteen newly independent African countries enter the United Nations, a political earthquake that shifts the majority vote from the colonial powers and the US to the global south. Congo becomes the arena in which the battle over the UN is fought. Emotions, blackmailing, assassination. Demands for immediate worldwide decolonization are raised. In this highly explosive context, the US government dispatches the likes of Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, or Nina Simone as Jazz Ambassadors around the world—as a diversion from CIA-backed coups.

BE/FR/NL, 2024, 150 min.; fr, en, nl / en sub / sk tit