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.
as Patrice Émery Lumumba
as Joseph Mobutu
as Maurice Mpolo
as Joseph Kasa Vubu
as Godefroid Munungo
as Moïse Tshombe
as Joseph Okito
as Thomas Kanza
as Pauline Lumumba
as Général Emile Janssens
as Walter J. Ganshof Van der Meersch
as Le maître d'hôtel
as Baudoin
as Le pilote du Dakota
as Belgian soldier
as Helene Bijou
as Belgian visa officer
as Un ministre
as Frank Carlucci
as Juliana Lumumba
as Van Den Bosch
as Timberlake
as Seulemane
as Politician
as Attacked Minister
as Prison Director
as Brussels Journalist
as ABAKO Delegate
as Man On Bicycle
as Baluba Soldier
as Doctor Brower
