Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Yale University. Director: Raoul Peck (A Zeitgeist Films Release) (115 minutes, 2000, Zimbabwe/Mozambique/Belgium, in French with English subtitles ) Lumumba is a gripping epic that dramatizes for the first time the rise and fall of legendary African leader Patrice Emery Lumumba. When the Congo declared its independence from Belgium in 1960, the 36-year-old, self-educated Lumumba became the first Prime Minister of the newly independent state. Called “the politico of the bush” by journalists of the day, he became a lightening rod of Cold War politics as his vision of a united Africa gained him powerful enemies in Belgium and the U.S. Lumumba would last just months in office before being brutally assassinated.