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Doc Talk Podcast: Oscar-Contending Director Johan Grimonprez Explains How He Pulled Off Incredible Filmmaking Feat In ‘Soundtrack To A Coup D’Etat’
The documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat explores how the U.S. and Belgium conspired to force Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba from power.
In February 1961, a remarkable outburst took place at the United Nations in New York – jazz artists Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, writer Maya Angelou and others crashed the Security Council to protest the assassination of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Even as the plot moved towards a bloody denouement, the U.S. State Department was dispatching some of America’s great Black jazz artists to Africa in the role of goodwill ambassadors, attempting to paper over its machinations in Congo. Grimonprez joins the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to explain how he managed to deftly synthesize so much complex world history, setting it to the beat of Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Lincoln and Roach.
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