Black Sun

Black Sun

97 mins | Drama | April 5, 1971

The life and death of Robert Moussombe, the leader of an unnamed African state. Moussombe is a fictionalized portrait of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, and the film's events are a pastiche of the Congo Crisis in 1960s.

Black Sun

97 mins | Drama | April 5, 1971

Black Sun
The life and death of Robert Moussombe, the leader of an unnamed African state. Moussombe is a fictionalized portrait of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, and the film's events are a pastiche of the Congo Crisis in 1960s.
Producers Belarusfilm
Original title Черное солнце
Directors Aleksei Speshnyov
Writers Aleksei Speshnyov

Cast

Ambroise Mbia

as Robert Moussombe

Nikolay Grinko

as Jean Barthes

Gemma Firsova

as Nicole Gauthier

Bob Cimba

as Jacques Loup

Mbissine Thérèse Diop

as Mrs. Moussombe

Douta Seck

as Parlamentary Representative