Lumumba
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Raoul Peck
Cheik Doukoure
Maka Kotto
Rudi Delhem
Dieudonne Kabongo
Theophile Sowie
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
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 earned 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, in order to protect U.S. business interests in Congo's vast resources and maintain 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 occuring at once, Lumumba met a brutal death--a mere nine months after becoming the country's first Prime Minister.
Director
Raoul Peck
Cast
Cheik Doukoure
Maka Kotto
Rudi Delhem
Dieudonne Kabongo
Theophile Sowie
Alex Descas
Pascal N'zonzi
Oumar Diop Makena
Eriq Ebouaney
Andre Debaar
Mariam Kaba
Crew
Jacques Bidou
Jacques Bidou
Philippe Bober
Richard Boidin
Dirk Bombey
Pascal Bonitzer
Sylvie Brocheré
Jacques Cluzard
Jacques Comets
Charlotte David
Marianne Dumoulin
Diana Elbaum
Andrt Fonsny
Georges Goldenstern
Jean-pierre Laforce
Bernard Lutic
Patrick Meunier
Raoul Peck
Raoul Peck
Jean-claude Petit
Denis Renault
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the award for Best Feature at the 2001 Pan African Film & Art Festival in Los Angeles.
Winner of the Irene Diamond Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2001 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.
Released in United States 2000
Released in United States August 2000
Released in United States February 2001
Released in United States July 20, 2001
Released in United States June 2001
Released in United States May 2000
Released in United States September 2000
Released in United States Summer June 27, 2001
Shown at Cannes International Film Festival (Directors' Fortnight) May 10-21, 2000.
Shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival (Director's Focus) August 13-27, 2000.
Shown at Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in New York City (Walter Reade) June 15-28, 2001.
Shown at Pan African Film & Art Festival in Los Angeles February 8-19, 2001.
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Special Presentation/ Planet Africa) September 7-16, 2000.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival September 22 - October 5, 2000.
Released in United States 2000 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival September 22 - October 5, 2000.)
Released in United States February 2001 (Shown at Pan African Film & Art Festival in Los Angeles February 8-19, 2001.)
Released in United States May 2000 (Shown at Cannes International Film Festival (Directors' Fortnight) May 10-21, 2000.)
Released in United States June 2001 (Shown at Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in New York City (Walter Reade) June 15-28, 2001.)
Released in United States Summer June 27, 2001
Released in United States July 20, 2001 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States September 2000 (Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Special Presentation/ Planet Africa) September 7-16, 2000.)
Released in United States August 2000 (Shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival (Director's Focus) August 13-27, 2000.)
