Plot: Paris, 1954. The story of the meeting, known thanks to the fortuitous discovery of a forgotten notebook, full of notes and photographs, between a white British aristocrat, Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, writer and jazz patron, and a talented black pianist, Thelonious Monk, one of the best bebop jazz musicians of all time; a prodigious union of wills that overcame the most extreme prejudices of the very conservative US society
Thelonious MonkThelonious Monk would have been no older than 64 in Monk & Pannonica: An American Story as 'Self - Jazz Musician (archive footage)'.
Birthday: Wed, Oct 10 1917 – Wed, Feb 17 1982
Pannonica de KoenigswarterPannonica de Koenigswarter would have been no older than 74 in Monk & Pannonica: An American Story as 'Self - Jazz Patron (archive footage)'.
Birthday: Wed, Dec 10 1913 – Wed, Nov 30 1988
Archie SheppArchie Shepp was 84 in Monk & Pannonica: An American Story as 'Self'.
Birthday: Mon, May 24 1937
Matthew ShippMatthew Shipp was >> in Monk & Pannonica: An American Story as 'Self'.
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
Crew
Jacques GoldsteinJacques Goldstein was >> in Monk & Pannonica: An American Story as 'Writer, Director'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
François Le GallFrançois Le Gall was >> in Monk & Pannonica: An American Story as 'Producer'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
Emmanuelle DugneEmmanuelle Dugne was >> in Monk & Pannonica: An American Story as 'Producer'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
Marion GuthMarion Guth was >> in Monk & Pannonica: An American Story as 'Producer'
Thelonious Monk
Pannonica de Koenigswarter
Archie Shepp
Matthew Shipp