Lumumba
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
Ériq Ebouaney
as Patrice Émery Lumumba
Alex Descas
as Joseph Mobutu
Théophile Sowié
as Maurice Mpolo
Maka Kotto
as Joseph Kasa Vubu
Dieudonné Kabongo
as Godefroid Munungo
Pascal N'Zonzi
as Moïse Tshombe
Makena Diop
as Thomas Kanza
Mariam Kaba
as Pauline Lumumba
Mata Gabin
as Helene Bijou
Michael Hofland
as Belgian visa officer
Christian Crahay
as Van Den Bosch
Philippe Drecq
as Politician
Jean-Henri Compère
as Prison Director
Renaud Rutten
as Brussels Journalist
Crew
Raoul Peck
Director
André Fonsny
Art Direction
Jean-Pierre Laforce
Sound
Philippe Bober
Associate Producer
Laurent Lévy
Foley
Raoul Peck
Associate Producer
Patrick Hella
Casting
Arlette Zylberberg
Associate Producer
Raoul Peck
Writer
Pascal Bonitzer
Writer
Jacques Bidou
Producer
Jean-Claude Petit
Original Music Composer