Lumumba
6.7
115 minutes
5/13/2000
Overview
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.
Cast List
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
Cheik Doukouré
as Joseph Okito
Makena Diop
as Thomas Kanza
Mariam Kaba
as Pauline Lumumba
Rudi Delhem
as Général Emile Janssens
André Debaar
as Walter J. Ganshof Van der Meersch
Francis Adam
as Le maître d'hôtel
Olivier Bony
as Baudoin
Alain Bouillé
as Le pilote du Dakota
Pavel Dobrovsky
as Belgian soldier
Mata Gabin
as Helene Bijou
Michael Hofland
as Belgian visa officer
Edgar Henri Mato
as Un ministre
Den Thatcher
as Frank Carlucci
Grace Ndala
as Juliana Lumumba
Christian Crahay
as Van Den Bosch
Jean-Pierre Stewart
as Timberlake
Pierre Geranio
as Seulemane
Philippe Drecq
as Politician
Simon Shumba
as Attacked Minister
Jean-Henri Compère
as Prison Director
Renaud Rutten
as Brussels Journalist
Christian Julien
as ABAKO Delegate
Charles Mucheriwa
as Man On Bicycle
Taurai Kawara
as Baluba Soldier
Paul Tingay
as Doctor Brower