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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.

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
Lumumba is a drama, history film released in 2000 exploring themes of congo, democratic republic of the congo. Directed by Raoul Peck, it stars Ériq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié. 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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