LUMUMBA

BY RAOUL PECK

FRANCE-BELGIQUE-HAITI, 2000, 115min

VO FR


WITH ERIQ EBOUANEY, ALEX DESCAS

Patrice Lumumba, Congolese independence hero, was just 30 years old when the first tremors of a botched decolonization propelled him to the front of the international political scene.

"This is set at a time when the light is on the conditions of the Congolese leader’s assassination, trying to restore a memory, to fight against forgetting and misinformation." (Africultures)







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