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From the director of I AM NOT YOUR NEGROMade in the tradition of such true-life political thrillers as Malcolm X and JFK, Raoul Peck’s award-winning Lumumba is a gripping epic that dramatizes for the first time the rise and fall of legendary African leader Patrice Lumumba. When the Congo declared its independence from Belgium in 1960, the 36-year-old, self-educated Lumumba became the first Prime Minister of the newly independent state. Called "the politico of the bush" by journalists of the day, he became a lightning rod of Cold War politics as his vision of a united Africa gained him powerful enemies in Belgium and the U.S. Lumumba would last just months in office before being brutally assassinated. Strikingly photographed in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Belgium as civil war once again raged in the Congo, the film vividly re-creates the shocking events behind the birth of the country that became Zaire during the reign of Lumumba's former friend and eventual nemesis, Joseph Mobutu.
Original Release
09/12/2000
US Release
06/27/2001
Cast
Name | Character |
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Eriq Ebouaney | Patrice Émery Lumumba |
Alex Descas | Joseph Mobutu |
Théophile Sowié | Maurice Mpolo |
Maka Kotto | Joseph Kasa Vubu |
Dieudonne Kabongo | Godefroid Munungo |
Pascal N'Zonzi | Moïse Tshombe |
Andre Debaar | Walter J. Ganshof Van der Meersch |
Cheik Doukouré | Joseph Okito |
Makena Diop | Thomas Kanza |
Mariam Kaba | Pauline Lumumba |
Directors
Writers
Raoul Peck, Pascal Bonitzer, Dan Edelstein
Cast
Name | Character |
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Eriq Ebouaney | Patrice Émery Lumumba |
Alex Descas | Joseph Mobutu |
Théophile Sowié | Maurice Mpolo |
Maka Kotto | Joseph Kasa Vubu |
Dieudonne Kabongo | Godefroid Munungo |
Pascal N'Zonzi | Moïse Tshombe |
Andre Debaar | Walter J. Ganshof Van der Meersch |
Cheik Doukouré | Joseph Okito |
Makena Diop | Thomas Kanza |
Mariam Kaba | Pauline Lumumba |
Rudi Delhem | Général Emile Janssens |
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 |
Paul Tingay | Doctor Brower |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Raoul Peck | Producer |
Jacques Bidou | Producer |
Philippe Bober | Producer |
Richard Boidin | Producer |
Diana Elbaum | Producer |
Georges Goldenstern | Producer |
Shelby Stone | Producer |
Arlette Zylberberg | Producer |