Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

An ingenious exploration of the impact of American jazz figures of the time on a perhaps little-known historical episode of the Cold War, the coup d’état that involved the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, independence leader and first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo. A portrait that weaves a tapestry that unites historical personalities (from Khrushchev to Eisenhower) with unavoidable names in music such as Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie or Miriam Makeba.