Congo, My Precious (2017)
Género : Documental, Bélica
Tiempo de ejecución : 52M
Director : Anastasia Trofimova
Sinopsis
The Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries. A wide range of rare minerals can be found here in abundance, all commanding high prices in world commodity markets. Diamonds for jewellery, tantalum, tungsten and gold for electronics; uranium used in power generation and weaponry and many others. Congo has copious deposits of raw materials that are in high demand internationally but remains one of the poorest countries in the world. For our translator, Bernard Kalume Buleri, his country’s history of turmoil is very personal; like most Congolese people, he and his family fell victim to the unending mineral based power struggle. Born in the year of his country’s independence, he has lived through war and seen his homeland torn apart by violent looting and greed. His story is a damning testament, illustrating how nature’s bounty, instead of being a blessing, becomes a deadly curse.
En 2011, la Sociedad Criptológica de Inglaterra envió una expedición al Congo en busca del Mokèle-mbèmbé (el equivalente africano al monstruo del Lago Ness). Nunca más se supo de los investigadores, aunque sí se hallaron las cintas de vídeo que dejaron grabadas. Se trata de un material de incalculable valor; la prueba definitiva de la existencia de especies que hacia 65 millones de años que se creían extinguidas.
Biografía de James Wilson, entre 1930 y 1960. Graduado en la Universidad de Yale, acabó siendo uno de los fundadores de la CIA. Se supone que el personaje se basa en el legendario y astuto jefe de inteligencia James Jesús Angleton.
Una expedición al Congo africano termina siendo un desastre. Un grupo de expertos busca un tipo de diamantes que, por su tamaño y pureza, pueden ser utilizados para poner en funcionamiento un transmisor de comunicaciones por láser, que también puede ser utilizado como arma. Cuando el equipo pierde contacto, la novia de uno de ellos, una antigua agente de la CIA, se dispone a buscar a su prometido por la selva.
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, un capitán de barco con tendencia a la bebida y una estirada misionera huyen de las tropas alemanas en una ruinosa embarcación y se ven obligados a remontar un peligroso río. Son, a primera vista, dos seres antagónicos, incompatibles, pero la convivencia y, sobre todo, las penalidades que tendrán que afrontar juntos para sobrevivir harán cambiar radicalmente su relación.
Año 1961, en el Congo. Jadotville cuenta la verdadera historia del comandante Patrick Quinlan y su batallón de 150 soldados irlandeses de la ONU, sitiados por 3.000 soldados congoleños bajo el mando de mercenarios franceses y belgas que trabajaban para empresas mineras.
Una joven belga (Audrey Hepburn), que pertenece a una familia burguesa, ingresa como novicia en un convento. Tras profesar como monja, es enviada al Congo para trabajar como enfermera en una misión, como era su deseo desde niña. Sin embargo, su sorpresa será mayúscula cuando compruebe que no será destinada a atender a los nativos, sino a los europeos que viven allí.
La historia de Dian Fossey, una científica que llegó a África para estudiar una especie en extinción: los gorilas de montaña. Dian quedó fascinada con estos animales y dedicó el resto de su vida a protegerlos de los cazadores furtivos y las propias autoridades.
En plena guerra, un mercenario trata de evacuar a los habitantes de un pueblo del Congo y, al mismo tiempo, de impedir que una fortuna en diamantes caiga en manos de las fuerzas rebeldes.
Cuenta la historia de Marlow, un aventurero contratado por una empresa colonial británica. Realiza un interesante viaje por el río, donde oye historias sobre un tal Kurtz. Cautivado por el personaje que inspira terror y admiración a partes iguales, decide ir en su busca. Cuando lo encuentra descubre a un ser perturbado capaz de las mayores atrocidades. Adaptación televisiva de la famosa novela de Joseph Conrad.
In urban America, the bush of Africa, the war zone of the Congo, and in closed nations there are women who are living outside their own cultures, society, and comfort level to care for orphans, build schools, liberate addicts, feed the poor, and love the broken. These ordinary women are reaching into hopeless situations of people and creating hope.
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Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of Zaire (now Congo) when he was assassinated in 1961.
Harry Witzel administra una plantación de caucho perdida en una selva africana. Recibe con poco entusiasmo a su nuevo ayudante, Mr Langford, con la certeza de que éste no soportará la vida en la plantación. A pesar de las advertencias de Witzel, el recién llegado sucumbirá a los encantos de Tondelayo, una hermosa, a la par que mezquina, nativa.
In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.
The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the day when he can get revenge on the man who ruined his life.
“In the beginning, women lived apart, unaware of the existence of men. Until one day, when the first woman, Toli, who was brave and adventurous traveled deep into the forest. Toli discovered solitary creatures with big muscles who knew how to climb trees and harvest wild honey. When Toli tasted their honey, she thought they should all live together….” That is how one of the creation stories of the Aka people from the tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin goes. Akaya, Kengole, Dibota and their friends and family are hunters-gatherers (and also great story-tellers) who guide us through their world. They explain their origins, myths, and the very spiritual meaning of life.
With unprecedented access to the UN Department of Peacekeeping, The Peacekeepers provides an intimate and dramatic portrait of the struggle to save "a failed state" The film follows the determined and often desperate maneuvers to avert another Rwandan disaster, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC). Focusing on the UN mission, the film cuts back and forth between the UN headquarters in New York and events on the ground in the DRC. We are with the peacekeepers in the "Crisis Room" as they balance the risk of loss of life on the ground with the enormous sums of money required from uncertain donor countries. We are with UN troops as the northeast Congo erupts and the future of the DRC, if not all of central Africa, hangs in the balance. In the background, but often impinging on peacekeeping decisions, are the painful memory of Rwanda, the worsening crisis in Iraq, global terrorism, and American hegemony in world affairs.
John Bishop encounters one of the most endangered animals on Earth, and discovers they and his family have more in common than he ever imagined. Filming in the jungles of Rwanda for John Bishop’s Gorilla Adventure, the comedian realises adolescent male mountain gorillas are just like his teenage sons – bulging muscles but no sense. Plus they fart, flirt and pick their noses. We follow John as he joins a group of vets who have dedicated their lives to saving the, sadly, precious few mountain gorillas left in the wild rugged mountains and valleys between the borders of Rwanda, Congo and Uganda, which were made famous to UK viewers by David Attenborough’s iconic sequence filmed among them in the 1970s.
35 Cows and a Kalashnikov is a joyously made triptych about warrior-farmers, colorful dandies and voodoo wrestlers in Ethiopia, Brazzaville and Kinshasa. It paints a loving and attentive portrait of African pride and beauty.
A young man with dreams of pursuing a career in music moves form his small village to the capital. Along the way he falls head over heels for a woman - the same woman his boss is also pursuing for his own reasons.
