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4/5 Fandor Written by Raoul Peck Running time 69 minutes Director Raoul Peck Narrated by Raoul Peck | 7.8/10 IMDb Directed by Raoul Peck Release date 1990 (1990) Initial release 1990 (France) Screenplay Raoul Peck Cast Patrice Lumumba | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Velvet Film, RTBF, Cinemamma, La Sept Arte Edited by Ailo Auguste-Judith
Raoul Peck
Eva Schlensag Producers Raoul Peck, Andreas Honegger Similar Movies about assassinations, Documentaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lumumba, la mort d'un prophète (Lumumba, the death of a prophet) is a 1990 documentary film by Haitian director Raoul Peck. It covers the death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The film was critically acclaimed and won a number of awards.
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The film is a creative documentary where biography and history, stories and archives create a frame around the figure of Lumumba, his political assassination, media and memory. It is a unique opportunity to examine, 50 years later, the life and legend of Lumumba. The documentary is narrated by the director, Raoul Peck, as he reconstructs a story that interweaves his own personal experiences and the circumstances surrounding the murder of Lumumba. Peck is in Belgium, and uses shots of Brussels to establish his location and contrast with the archival footage he combines to tell Lumumba's story. The film is about absence; absence of a historical figure, absence of clarity about the events surrounding his death, and absence of a true historical construct. Even a true location is absent; he cannot get to Zaire, the topic of his film, but the majority of the archival footage and photos used are from Central Africa. Even if he were able to film in Zaire, he would be faced with an absence, so no matter his location he is still “filming from afar.”