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Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat

Saturday, October 19
1:00pm

Location: Clairidge Cinema 5

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Sunday, October 20
12:30pm

Location: Clairidge Cinema 5

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United Nations, 1960: jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez’s SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT 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 Lumumba. 

In French Dutch, Russian, and English with English subtitles.

 

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