Kisangani Diary

Feb 20 1998 N/A 0h 45m
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)

Plot

Along a railroad in the south of the former Zaire UN troups discover a few thousand refugees from Rwanda. The camps for the survivors are being massacred a little later on April 25th 1997 by the so-called liberating rebel army of the new "Democratic Republic" of Kongo - and nobody has seen this in the evening news.

Written by

Hubert Sauper

Directed by

Hubert Sauper

Cast

N/A

Crew

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Production Countries

France, Austria

Production Companies

Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion, Flor Films Paris

Languages

Français, English

Awards

3 wins

Scores
# of Votes
88
Average Rating
7.9 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA