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Lumumba
Directed by
Raoul Peck
Not Rated
2000
1h 55m
Drama
,
Biography
,
and more
7.2
81%
83%
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The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo Patrice Lumumba.
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Cast of Lumumba
Ériq Ebouaney
Patrice Émery Lumumba
Alex Descas
Joseph Mobutu
Théophile Sowié
Maurice Mpolo
Maka Kotto
Joseph Kasa Vubu
Dieudonné Kabongo
Godefroid Munungo
Pascal N'Zonzi
Moïse Tshombe
Cheik Doukouré
Joseph Okito
Makena Diop
Thomas Kanza
Mariam Kaba
Pauline Lumumba
Rudi Delhem
Général Emile Janssens
André Debaar
Walter J. Ganshof Van der Meersch
Francis Adam
Le maître d'hôtel
Olivier Bony
Baudoin
Alain Bouillé
Le pilote du Dakota
Pavel Dobrovsky
Belgian soldier
Mata Gabin
Helene Bijou
Michael Hofland
Belgian visa officer
Edgar Henri Mato
Un ministre
Den Thatcher
Frank Carlucci
Grace Ndala
Juliana Lumumba
Christian Crahay
Van Den Bosch
Jean-Pierre Stewart
Timberlake
Pierre Geranio
Seulemane
Philippe Drecq
Politician
Simon Shumba
Attacked Minister
Jean-Henri Compère
Prison Director
Renaud Rutten
Brussels Journalist
Christian Julien
ABAKO Delegate
Charles Mucheriwa
Man On Bicycle
Taurai Kawara
Baluba Soldier
Paul Tingay
Doctor Brower
Lumumba Ratings & Reviews
Dallas Morning News
Gary Dowell
Ebouaney is given the daunting task of carrying a heavy film, and rises to the challenge with Denzel Washington-esque conviction.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A taut, well-drawn story.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Complex, powerful, intensely dramatic.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A biographical drama as fiery as the man whose brief existence it illuminates.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Strong, bloody and sad.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
As fluid and intellectually stimulating as the man himself.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Peck, who assayed Lumumba's life in a 1991 documentary, now paces the doomed man's story like the genuine thriller it is.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
At the heart of the movie is Ebouaney's performance as Lumumba, every bit as intense as Denzel Washington's as Malcolm X.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
Ebouaney is easily the best thing about this import.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
The vividness of the figures and situations whets the appetite.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Captures the volatility and chaos of a nation struggling to find its identity and purpose.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Gives a neglected giant of African independence his due.
San Francisco Chronicle
Wesley Morris
Ebouaney, as Lumumba, imbues the man with the fury and calm that complicates Peck's construction of him as a symbol with a legacy.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
His story is told with admirable crispness and a surprising lack of bias.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Packed with incident, the film also crackles with danger, simmers with hope.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
The trouble with the film is not canonization but, again, the recurrent defect in pictures about such people. The ideational data are so sketchy that it is as if we were riffling the pages of a complicated book.
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
A great film and a great performance.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
The tumultuous events surrounding the rise and fall of the Congo's first prime minister are rendered with passion and complexity.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
As clich-rich as it is compelling.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Never much more than hagiography that lets the context of its hero's death remain confused.
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