an excellent and thoughtfully produce historical drama well play and artfully write and shoot in way that convey accurate visual image of the congo and and with more than a few moving moment and especially for those who care about the history of africa and imperialism . however and a fair amount of worthwhile content get lose in translation and and because name and acronym and and so forth be hard to follow . so i would strongly recommend check a neutral source such a wikipedia to get a basic sense of the story be depict ( and the subsequent history ) before enjoy the film . if you have the dvd version and there be also some useful historical background . there be a point towards the end of the film where the name of a character who then speak with an american accent be actually beep out a simple google search of lumumba film censor or something similar will reveal a truly fascinating ( and perhaps disturb ) twist regard the production of this important film . this film and if couple with a little outside research and help contextualize dozen of other film relate to central or east africa and or or imperialism and e. g. hotel rwanda and shake hand with the devil and various adaptation of conrad heart of darkness and and even ali when mohammed ali visit kinshasa .