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.
Ériq Ebouaney
as Patrice Émery Lumumba
Alex Descas
as Joseph Mobutu
Théophile Sowié
as Maurice Mpolo
Maka Kotto
as Joseph Kasa Vubu
Dieudonné Kabongo
as Godefroid Munungo
Pascal N'Zonzi
as Moïse Tshombe
Cheik Doukouré
as Joseph Okito
Makena Diop
as Thomas Kanza
Mariam Kaba
as Pauline Lumumba
Rudi Delhem
as Général Emile Janssens
André Debaar
as Walter J. Ganshof Van der Meersch
Francis Adam
as Le maître d'hôtel
