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Kisangani Diary

1998-02-20
7.5
en 52m
Documentary
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)

Director

Hubert Sauper

Producer

Hubert Sauper

Writer

Hubert Sauper

Music

Zsuzsanna Várkonyi

Producer

Stéphane Krausz

Editor

Hubert Sauper

rwanda refugee congo zaire genocide

Status

Released

Countries

  • Austria
  • France

Companies

  • Flor Films Paris
  • Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion