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Lumumba 

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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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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Genre:Drama, History
Directed By:Raoul Peck
Written By:Dan Edelstein, Pascal Bonitzer, Raoul Peck
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Runtime:115 minutes
Studio:JBA Production, RTBF, Entre Chien et Loup, Essential Filmproduktion, ARTE France Cinéma, Velvet Film, Hubert Bals Fund

Cast

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Raoul Peck

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Ériq Ebouaney

Patrice Émery Lumumba

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Alex Descas

Joseph Mobutu

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Théophile Sowié

Maurice Mpolo

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Maka Kotto

Joseph Kasa Vubu

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Dieudonné Kabongo

Godefroid Munungo

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Pascal N'Zonzi

Moïse Tshombe

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Cheik Doukouré

Joseph Okito

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Makena Diop

Thomas Kanza

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Mariam Kaba

Pauline Lumumba

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Rudi Delhem

Général Emile Janssens

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André Debaar

Walter J. Ganshof Van der Meersch

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