🎥 Soundtrack to a Coup d’État

🎥 This is a movie playing at the Divonne-les-Bains Theater.

Vost ENGLISH, subtitle FRENCH.

Jazz, politics, and decolonization intertwine in this historic roller coaster ride that reveals an incredible episode from the Cold War.

In Protected content , singer Abbey Lincoln and drummer Max Roach, civil rights activists and jazz figures, interrupted a UN Security Council session to protest the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo.

In this country ravaged by civil war, the uranium-rich subsoil was fueling Western interference. The UN became the arena for a major geopolitical standoff, and Louis Armstrong, named "Ambassador of Jazz," was sent on a mission to the Congo by the United States to divert attention from the CIA-backed coup ...

🎟️ you can take your tickets at the entrance of the theater.

🅿️ the Divonne-les-Bains Theater is localed near the Casino, Inside the Grand hôtel Resort.

The best Is to park your car at the entrance of the Grand Hôtel, up the resort and not down at the casino, because now there is a gate, and I don’t really know how that goes.

The Theater is a building appart, located at the back of the resort next to the Casino entrance.

🚞🚌 To come at Divonne-les-Bains there are several buses coming from Coppet or Nyon.

For the return you can ask for car sharing.

I’m going back-and-forth from Nyon, so if needed I can give you a lift from there to there.