Soundtrack to a coup d’état

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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat is a 2024 documentary film directed by Johan Grimonprez about the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.

For this film we created +360 title cards.

  • Title design
Production
Onomatopee Films / Warboys Films
Director
Johan Grimonprez
Producers
Daan Milius / Rémi Grellety
Title designer
Hans Lettany

...Ellington’s “Take the ‘A’ Train” pulses through the background as we’re introduced to the main historical players. Sprightly title cards, designed by Hans Lettany, cast Malcolm X, former Soviet Union premier Nikita Khrushchev, Lumumba’s chief of protocol Andrée Blouin and former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, for example, as characters in a fictional sitcom.

—Hollywood Reporter