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The story of political leader Patrice Lumumba, Congo's first prime minister who helped lead his country to independence from Belgium in the late 1950s. Lumumba's vision of a united Africa gained him powerful enemies: the Belgian authorities, who wanted a much more paternal role in their former colony's affairs, and the CIA, who supported Lumumba's former friend Joseph Mobutu. This was in order to protect U.S. business interests in Congo's vast resources and their upper hand in the Cold War power balance. During the tenuous first six months of Congo's independence when civil war threatened to erupt, Lumumba tried to quell hostilities but was eventually betrayed by Mobutu whom he had appointed as head of the army. In 1961 with several conspiracies occurring at once, Lumumba met a brutal death--a mere nine months after becoming the country's first Prime Minister.

Production
Arte [fr]; Canal+ [fr]; Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) [fr]; Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté Française de Belgique [be]; Cofimage 10 [fr]; Entre Chien et Loup [be]; Essential Filmproduktion GmbH [de]; Eurimages [fr]; Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma [fr]; JBA Production [fr]; L'Agence de la Francophonie (ACCT) [fr]; Liberator Productions [fr]; Ministère des Affaires Étrangères [fr]; Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF) [be]; SFP Cinema, La [fr]; Velvet Film [fr]; Velvet S.A. [ht]; Vlaamse Radio en Televisie (VRT) [be]; Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) [de]; arte France Cinéma [fr];

Cast Names
Francis Adam; Alain Bouillé; Edgar Henri Mato; Den Thatcher; Paul Tingay; Mata Gabin; Eriq Ebouaney; Alex Descas; Théophile Sowié; Maka Kotto; Dieudonné Kabongo; Pascal N'Zonzi; André Debaar; Cheik Doukouré; Makena Diop; Mariam Kaba; Rudi Delhem;

Box Office
USD 684,121

Release Date
2001-02-10 (Pan African Film Festival)
2001-04-01 (VCU French Film Festival)
2001-06-27 (limited)
2001-07-26 (Los Angeles, California)

Genres
Biography; Drama; History; War;

Running Time
1 hr. 55 min.
2 hr. 0 min. (Mar del Plata Film Festival)

Director
Raoul Peck

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