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Lumumba(Movie, 2000)

1h 55min | Genres: Drama, History
LumumbaRating: 3.2/5 (with 1212 votes)
Lumumba is a 2000 biographical film directed by Raoul Peck. A co-production of France, Germany, Belgium, and Haiti filmed in French, the film depicts the rise and fall of Patrice Lumumba, and is set in the months before and after Congo-Léopoldville achieved independence from Belgium in June 1960. Political unrest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the time of filming caused the film to be shot in Zimbabwe and Beira, Mozambique. The film received positive reviews from critics, and won awards from the American Black Film Festival, the Political Film Society, and the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou. ()
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About 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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Additional Information

Production countries: Belgium, Germany, France, Haiti
Shot in: Zimbabwe
Plays in: Belgium
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: English (EN), French (FR), Lingala (LN)
Translated into 4 languages: English (EN), French (FR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date GR: 05/13/2000
Appearing Characters: Patrice Lumumba, Mobutu Sese Seko, Maurice Mpolo, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Godefroid Munongo, Tchombé Moïse, Baudouin I of Belgium, Joseph Okito, Thomas Kanza, Pauline Opango, Émile Janssens, Frank Carlucci
Director: Raoul Peck
Producer: Raoul Peck
Screenwriter: Pascal Bonitzer
Director of Photography: Bernard Lutic

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