Messy docudrama on a messy subject, the unrest in the newly independent Congo and the martyrdom of its first prime minister after two months in office. Raoul Peck, the Haitian director, had treated the subject in an all-out documentary nine years earlier. (Valerio Zurlini, freed by false names and unencumbered by facts, once made a stronger film on the subject, Black Jesus.) Eriq Ebouaney, excellent, portrays the life-sized if shadowy title figure. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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