Genres
Production Companies
RTBF
Entre Chien et Loup
Essential Filmproduktion
ARTE France Cinéma
Velvet Film
ZDF/Arte
Canal+
VRT
Cofimage 10
Eurimages
CNC
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté Française de Belgique
Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma
Ministère des Affaires Étrangères
Cirta Films
Lumumba
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.
Key Crew
Writer: Dan Edelstein, Raoul Peck, Pascal Bonitzer
Director: Raoul Peck
Producer: Jacques Bidou
Director of Photography: Bernard Lutic
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
Videos
Lumumba Official Film Trailer
