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Lumumba, la mort du prophète

France / Switzerland / Belgium, 1990
FILM, Fiction, 69 min.

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directed by
Raoul Peck
Written by
Raoul Peck

In 1962, a Haitian child joined his parents, working in Congo, formerly Belgian, newly independent. Two years earlier, Patrice Lumumba, a mythical figure of Congolese independence, was killed in Katanga. From a photograph found by his mother where the Congolese leader appears, the child, turned filmmaker, realizes thirty years later, a very personal and sensitive film where biography and history, testimonies and archives constitute the frame of a reflection around the figure of Lumumba, his political assassination, the media and the memory.

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World Premiere
1990
Original Version
 colour and b/w, 69 min.
Production
Velvet Film, Cinémamma GmbH, RTBF - Radio Télévision Belge Francophone, ARTE France – Unité de Programmes Documentaires
Producer
directed by
Raoul Peck
Written by
Raoul Peck
Cinemato­graphy
Matthias Kälin, Philippe Ros
Editing
Aïlo Auguste-Judith, Raoul Peck, Eva Schlensag
Location Sound Mix
Eric Vaucher, Martin Witz

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