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11/09/2024 Documentary, History, Music 2h 30m
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Overview

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.

  1. Johan Grimonprez

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Patrice Lumumba

    Self (archive footage)

  2. Louis Armstrong

    Self (archive footage)

  3. Nikita Khrushchev

    Self (archive footage)

  4. Dizzy Gillespie

    Self (archive footage)

  5. Andrée Blouin

    Self (archive footage)

  6. Abbey Lincoln

    Self (archive footage)

  7. Max Roach

    Self (archive footage)

  8. Malcolm X

    Self (archive footage)

  9. Nina Simone

    Self (archive footage)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-11-23
This documentary is a serious testament to the archivist's art as it pieces together an impressive array of imagery of the great and the good of American Jazz and combines that with some intimate actuality of the turbulence ongoing in the Congo as it strived for independence. Why might anyone care about the future of an impoverished African nation that had all but bankrupted it's "owner" - King Leopold II of Belgium? Well that's because it holds enormous deposits of the uranium required by both the West and the Soviets - and that's just the start of it's reputedly $23 trillion worth of mineral...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$311,457.00

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