Lumumba (2000)

Directors

Raoul Peck

Cast

Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto

The story

The film begins with a montage of Lumumba and his compatriots Joseph Okito and Maurice Mpolo being driven to their executions, cutting to their bodies being exhumed, dismembered, and burned on the orders of Joseph Mobutu. The film then jumps back to the late 1950s as Lumumba has a debate with Moïse Tshombe and Godefroid Munongo, rival politicians from the pro-Western CONAKAT party. Lumumba expresses his Pan-Africanist ideals, which infuriate Tshombe and Munongo.

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