Lumumba (2000) [N/A]
Release Date:
May 13, 2000
Original Title:
Lumumba
Genres:
Drama | History
Production Companies:
ARTE France Cinéma
CNC
Canal+
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté Française de Belgique
Cirta Films
Cofimage 10
Entre Chien et Loup
Essential Filmproduktion
Eurimages
Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma
JBA Production
Ministère des Affaires Étrangères
RTBF
VRT
Velvet Film
ZDF/Arte
Production Countries:
Belgium | France | Germany | Haiti
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 115
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
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