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Lumumba

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Original title

Lumumba

Year

2000

Running time

109 min.

Country

France

Director

Raoul Peck

Screenwriter

Raoul Peck, Pascal Bonitzer

Cast

Music

Jean-Claude Petit

Cinematography

Bernard Lutic

Producer

Co-production France-Haiti;

JBA Production, arte, Entre Chien et Loup, Velvet Films, Essential Filmproduktion, arte France Cinéma

Genre

Drama | Biography. Based on a true story. Historical. Africa. Politics. 1960s

Synopsis

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 Belgium 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.

Awards: 2001: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film

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Lumumba

2000

Raoul Peck

6.8

(134)