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Lumumba (2000)

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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.

Updated May 20 2020

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Runtime: 115 mins Rating: 6.4

Cast

Pascal N'Zonzi

Alex Descas

Joseph Mobutu

Eriq Ebouaney

Patrice Émery Lumumba

Maka Kotto

Cheik Doukouré

Dieudonné Kabongo

Makena Diop

Théophile Sowié

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Crew

Bernard Lutic

Cinematography

Jean-Claude Petit

Music

Raoul Peck

Director

Raoul Peck

Writer

Jacques Comets

Editor

Pascal Bonitzer

Writer

Jacques Bidou

Producer

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