Lumumba

Lumumba (2000)

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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  • Release Date: 2000-05-13
  • Runtime: 1h 55min
  • Director: Raoul Peck

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    Cast

    • Ériq Ebouaney

      Patrice Émery Lumumba

    • Alex Descas

      Joseph Mobutu

    • Théophile Sowié

      Maurice Mpolo

    • Maka Kotto

      Joseph Kasa Vubu

    • Dieudonné Kabongo

      Godefroid Munungo

    • Pascal N'Zonzi

      Moïse Tshombe

    • Cheik Doukouré

      Joseph Okito

    • Makena Diop

      Thomas Kanza

    • Mariam Kaba

      Pauline Lumumba

    • Rudi Delhem

      Général Emile Janssens

    • André Debaar

      Walter J. Ganshof Van der Meersch

    • Francis Adam

      Le maître d'hôtel

    • Olivier Bony

      Baudoin

    • Alain Bouillé

      Le pilote du Dakota

    • Pavel Dobrovsky

      Belgian soldier

    • Mata Gabin

      Helene Bijou

    • Michael Hofland

      Belgian visa officer

    • Edgar Henri Mato

      Un ministre

    • Den Thatcher

      Frank Carlucci

    • Grace Ndala

      Juliana Lumumba

    • Christian Crahay

      Van Den Bosch

    • Jean-Pierre Stewart

      Timberlake

    • Pierre Geranio

      Seulemane

    • Philippe Drecq

      Politician

    • Simon Shumba

      Attacked Minister

    • Jean-Henri Compère

      Prison Director

    • Renaud Rutten

      Brussels Journalist

    • Christian Julien

      ABAKO Delegate

    • Charles Mucheriwa

      Man On Bicycle

    • Taurai Kawara

      Baluba Soldier

    • Paul Tingay

      Doctor Brower

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