Ein fesselnder Essayfilm von Johan Grimonprez, der sich mit der Ermordung von Patrice Lumumba beschäftigt, dem ersten d | dG1fRUFDWnF2c2IxcjQ
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00:00Eines der amerikanisch größten Emissarien befindet sich in der Trommelkongo
00:05auf einer Mission von der Staatsanwaltschaft Goodwill.
00:07Louis Solid Swing veröffentlichte die Radio Moskau,
00:10die Armstrongs Besuch als Diversionärs-Taktik zerstörte.
00:13Die Menschen der Kongo sind bereit,
00:15ihr Land in Frieden und Freiheit zu bauen.
00:24Hold me close and hold me fast
00:29We were to go to Olympic Gale
00:31to attend a concert given by Louis Armstrong.
00:35How much money do the Central Intelligence Agency has poured into the Congo?
00:39I don't know. Are you prepared to say?
00:41I certainly, of course, don't know.
00:43I wonder if it's quite honest to represent our policy as completely angelic.
00:49And seated out on the terrace was a man I recognized.
00:53He said, well, you have to assassinate Lumumba.
00:56He used those words?
00:58Yes.
01:00But who ordered him?
01:02He said President Eisenhower.
01:06In the UN, when Khrushchev took off his shoe and was beating that shoe,
01:09and the interpreter said,
01:11I'll marry you!
01:15Khrushchev was saying, I love you,
01:18but it was the interpreter who hated America.
01:22The ditty of rhythm.
01:28Rhythm is my business.
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