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.
00:07:57 and insulting.
00:11:01 I love Primus. Long live King Kasa.
00:13:35 Uhuru! Viva! Viva!
00:17:58 Want to be decorated?
00:21:30 You attach too much importance to a word.
00:24:01 The colonial administration holds them together.
00:27:58 Brussels prefers a Congo without a leader on June 30
00:31:56 I'll go back to Elizabeth City.
00:35:25 The King, the General, the Bishop ...
00:38:51 a fight in which we were spared neither privation nor suffering
00:42:21 What do they want?
00:45:36 You will come to Camp Leopold?
00:49:24 They say that?
00:53:41 First, General Janssens should leave Congo within 24 hours.
00:56:33 Congo is too big for us.
01:00:13 We refuse. You are no longer with you
01:03:15 So far I've got you covered.
01:07:12 The Congolese army ... - I know.
01:11:24 And Dieudonné? - Yet again.
01:15:20 Acute hepatitis. We need urgent action.
01:19:27 Has Lumumba been convicted?
01:27:04 No Patrice, I'm not going first.
01:37:20 I warned you.