Black Jesus
- IMDb link: 0063576
- IMDb rating: 6.6 (364 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Valerio Zurlini
- Cast: Woody Strode, Franco Citti, Jean Servais, Pier Paolo Capponi and others
- Release date: 25 Aug 1971
- Release year: 1971
- Runtime: 89 minutes
- Country: Italy
- Keywords: reference to patrice lumumba, congo crisis, freedom fighter, incarceration, political leader, anti colonialism, politics, religious symbolism, martyr, year 1960
Plot
Storyline
Rebel Maurice Lalubi is arrested by the military on trumped up charges and tortured, which turns him into a martyr. Inspired by the final days of the first democratic Congolese leader, Patrice Lumumba.
A Congo rebel leader is captured and imprisoned with two white felons in this 81-minute feature containing religious symbolism and condemnation of colonial exploitation. Maurice Lalubi is thrown in jail with a soldier and an Italian thief. The trio endures torture at the hands of their captors, while a newly formed military regime decides the fate of the insurgent. The entire horror of the confrontation is seen through his eyes throughout Lalubi's interrogation and torture. His imminent demise could turn him into a martyr and spell trouble for the new government dictator in this sometimes violent film.
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