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'Lumumba' is nothing short of triumphant
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Proyect, Louis
Indianapolis Recorder
08-03-2001
`Lumumba' is nothing short of triumphant
Except for Gilles Pontecorvo's "Burn," Raul Peck's "Lumumba" is the only
film to explore neo-colonialism in the depth it deserves. But unlike
"Burn," "Lumumba" deals with real people and real events -- in this case
the conspiracy of U.S. intelligence, the Belgian government and local
traitors to keep an African people in chains despite the formal
independence won in 1960.
Cast as Patrice Lumumba, Eriq Ebouaney not only bears a striking physical
resemblance to the martyred leader, more importantly he conveys the
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