Lumumba ( 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.

Top Cast

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

André Debaar

Walter J. Ganshof Van der Meersch

Francis Adam

Le maître d'hôtel

Olivier Bony

Baudoin

Alain Bouillé

Le pilote du Dakota

Pavel Dobrovsky

Belgian soldier

Mata Gabin

Helene Bijou

Michael Hofland

Belgian visa officer

Edgar Henri Mato

Un ministre

Den Thatcher

Frank Carlucci

Grace Ndala

Juliana Lumumba

Christian Crahay

Van Den Bosch

Jean-Pierre Stewart

Timberlake

Pierre Geranio

Seulemane

Philippe Drecq

Politician

Simon Shumba

Attacked Minister

Jean-Henri Compère

Prison Director

Renaud Rutten

Brussels Journalist

Christian Julien

ABAKO Delegate

Charles Mucheriwa

Man On Bicycle

Taurai Kawara

Baluba Soldier

Paul Tingay

Doctor Brower