Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.
Editing
Jazz rhythms cut against assassination footage with devastating precision.
Sound
Score weaponizes Armstrong's trumpet against its own political context.
Direction
Grimonprez turns archival research into paranoid cinema.
Director
Johan Grimonprez
Patrice Lumumba
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Abbey Lincoln
Self (archive footage)
Max Roach
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Nina Simone
Self (archive footage)
John Coltrane
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Miriam Makeba
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
René Magritte
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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