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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Cast
30 people
Ériq Ebouaney
Patrice Émery Lumumba
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Alex Descas
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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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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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Raoul Peck Director · Pascal Bonitzer Writer Dan Edelstein Writer
First release May 13, 2000 · Produced in France, Belgium, Germany, Haiti, Netherlands · Languages English, French, Lingala
Production
JBA Production
Production
RTBF
Production
Entre Chien et Loup
Production
Essential Filmproduktion
Production
ARTE France Cinéma
Production
Velvet Film
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Hubert Bals Fund
Production
Radio Télévision Belge Francophone
Production
France · Belgium · Germany · Haiti · Netherlands
Produced in
Languages
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
English · French · Lingala
Release dates
France · May 13, 2000
Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
Belgium · September 27, 2000
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Canada
September 12, 2000 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
France
October 4, 2000 · Theatrical
Netherlands
May 31, 2001 · Theatrical
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