Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024, dir. Johan Grimonprez)
A Hidden Beach Winter of Culture film night at the Electric Palace, Hastings.
This electrifying, Academy Award-nominated documentary digs into the jazz ambassadors the United States sent across the world in the 1960s — Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington — while, behind the music, superpower politics sealed the fate of the newly independent Congo and its leader Patrice Lumumba. Cutting between smoky performances, archive newsreels and declassified memos, it is a thrilling, music-soaked detective story about art, propaganda and empire.
Part of the Hidden Beach Winter of Culture film season. Register your interest to hear first when tickets go on sale.
