SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT – FILM SCREENING
04/30 20:00
Bolzano
BE/FR/NL 2024, 150′, Johan Grimonprez
In January 1961, the new president of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, was assassinated with the complicity of Belgium and the United States, in order to plunder the country’s wealth. Louis Armstrong was on tour in Congo and unknowingly became a cover for the first post-colonial coup d’état in Africa, while other artists like Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie questioned their role in their own country, where racial segregation still prevailed. This film is a masterful, multi-voiced narrative, driven by jazz and soul, about how African self-determination was undermined in the 1960s.
In collaboration with Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige and Bolzano UNESCO Creative City of Music.
Event Partner(s)
Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige and Bolzano UNESCO Creative City of Music
Organizer(s)
FILMCLUB
Contact Person: Amy Sumner
Tel: +
Email: [email protected]
Location(s)
FILMCLUB Capitol
8 Via Dr. Josef Streiter
Bolzano,
Trentino-Alto Adige
39100
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