Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 15:25:49 -0500
From: eileen mcnamara <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: African Film Series 2003

You are invited to the first film of the African Studies/UW
Cinematheque  Film Series 2003 on Thursday, July 10 at 7:30 pm in
4070 Vilas Hall
Plan to arrive early to find a seat-- seating for 150 people only
(strictly enforced).


Lumumba
(France/Belgium/Haiti/Germany, 2000, 35mm, 115 min)
Directed by Raoul Peck.  French and Lingala with English subtitles.

Nearly a decade after the release of his award-winning documentary
Lumumba: Death of a Prophet (1991), director Raoul Peck returns to
the subject of Patrice Emery Lumumba, the brilliant and charismatic
African leader whose vision of a unified nation precipitated the
Congo's independence from Belgian rule.  Incorporating recently
discovered historical evidence, Peck presents a gripping political
thriller that charts Lumumba's rapid rise to the office of Prime
Minister and the gradual emergence of his powerful enemy, an
international community that orchestrated the leader's brutal murder
in 1961.
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Anita H. Makuluni * Madison WI * [log in to unmask]

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