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A Season In The Congo

Director: Joe Wright

Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor

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Patrice Émery Lumumba, a Congolese independence leader, becomes the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, after he helps win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Only twelve weeks later, Lumumba's government is deposed in a coup during the Congo Crisis.
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Biography Drama Adaptation Based on Play

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The film's director Joe Wright last directed Cyrano and The Woman in the Window .

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  • Shooting will take place in Kinshasa.
  • An adaptation of the stage play which was translated by Ralph Manheim and produced at The Young Vic theater in the U.K.

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