Movie Description
Kisangani Diary
(1998)Overview
Along an overgrown rail track south of the Zairean town Kisangani, a UN expedition together with a handful of journalists discover “lost” refugees. They are eighty thousand Hutus from far away Rwanda, the last survivors of three years of hunger and armed persecution that transpired throughout the vast Congo basin. The Hutu-refugees leave the forest, gathering in two gigantic camps. Hundreds of refugees die every day from diseases and malnutrition The Rwandans are promised repatriation with airplanes out of Kisangani. The film traces those refugees into the heart of the rainforest, and the hopeless attempts to help them.. But only four weeks later, the unprotected UN-camps are again attacked by machine-gun fire, deliberately massacred by factions of the rebel army (AFDL) of today’s Democratic Republic Congo. Eighty thousand men, women and children disappear once again back into the jungle. (jedensvet.cz)
Featured Crew
- Director : Hubert Sauper
- Producer : Hubert Sauper,Nikolaus Geyrhalter,Stéphane Krausz
- Writer : Hubert Sauper
- Editor : Hubert Sauper
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Facts
Original TitleKisangani Diary
Status Released
Release Information
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1998-02-20
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 00h 52m
Production CompaniesFlor Films Paris,Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
Genres
- Documentary