Lumumba
2000 · 115 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 2,130 VOTES · DIR. Raoul Peck
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.
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00:02:10 Congo, became the personal property of Belgian King Leopold I.
00:07:59 I can only say:
00:11:07 Long live Congo!
00:14:06 What nobody predicted was that everything would change.
00:18:30 Why is he bleeding? - As usual. He protested.
00:21:49 Men ...
00:24:25 There remains one question: will she be federalist, as you want
00:28:25 We can find better.
00:32:30 Do not argue with them, Thomas. They are fascists.
00:36:15 but as an advocate of civilization.
00:39:31 and our wounds are too fresh and painful to erase
00:43:14 What is that?
00:47:16 You're a disgrace' to the regiment.
00:51:01 The Force Publique has to change like the rest.
00:54:57 I ask him the travel by air at the first available opportunity.
00:58:01 We can choose war, shame, resignation
01:01:49 They removed the paratroopers there! Send troops to the airport!
01:04:54 You're not by my side.
01:10:04 I'll be honest with you
01:13:45 Dictator Lumumba, Lumumba Communist, Lumumba Moscow etc.
01:18:22 Out of this impasse
01:23:15 Alphonse ...
01:32:57 Very well, gentlemen, it's time to vote.
30:19:06 Patrice Lumumba, 36, became