Lumumba - Death of a Prophet

This documentary sets the standard for what will later be one of Raoul Pecks most important characteristics: a very special poetic mixture of fiction and fact. Peck challenges our expectations of the documentary genre and asks questions about who actually defines the truth. Lumumba: La Mort du Prophéte is the story about one of Africa’s foremost martyrs, Patrice Lumumba: hailed as a people’s man during independence from Belgium in 1960, betrayed and brutally murdered by many hands– among them the later dictator Mobutu, the CIA and diverse foreign embassies. Peck asks why, and how somebody like Lumumba was killed after barely two months in power – and how he managed nevertheless to leave his inprint on history. akek