LUMUMBA, LA MORT DU PROPHÈTE

(LUMUMBA, DEATH OF A PROPHET )
Raoul PECK
  • 2021
  • Cannes Classics
  • World Cinéma Project

1961: The first leader of the newly independent Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba was arrested, tortured and executed by a firing squad in Katanga. 1962: Raoul Peck, aged eight, is forced to leave Haiti for the Congo along with his family. Thirty years later, between childhood memories, reports, archives and personal investigations, the filmmaker revisits Lumumba’s long concealed sacrificial disappearance, and its consequences for our present.

Directed by : Raoul PECK
Year of production: 1990
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Haiti
Duration: 69 minutes

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