Fifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, is back to haunt Belgium. Through commemorations, encounters and a return visit, a top-ranking Belgian civil servant who was in Elisabethville on that bloody day of 17 January 1961 attempts to exorcise the ghosts of the past.
An examination of the biopolitical body, this feature-length film by Sven Augustijnen exposes the fine line separating legitimation and historiography and the traumatic question of responsability and debt.
shooting in the national museum of Kinshasa
fascinating chinese contruction in Kinshasa
cemetary of Lubumbashi
'le lieu de l'execution'
'le lieu de l'execution'
la termitiere
the back of the 4x4
statue of king Leopold II in Kinshasa
one week later: statue of king Leopold II in Brussels
gouvernement in trouble
exchanged an earring for a picture
collegues from an unnumbered garage
Lumumba memorial Ostend
Lumumba memorial Ostend
Lumumba memorial Ostend
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