Katanga Business
OT: Katanga Business
Thierry Michel | Belgium, 2009
Documentary Feature | FF2009
Story
Thierry Michel portrays the bitter struggle over precious natural resources such as cobalt, ore, wolfram and copper in the Congo. Governor Moïse Katumbi, “a capitalist-populist mixture of Silvio Berlusconi and Hugo Chávez”, is at loggerheads with Chinese and Western investors. It is the poorest of the poor who suffer most from this economic colonialism. The workers fall victim to the police, political cronies, corruption and global greed of gain.
Director
THIERRY MICHEL, born in 1952, Belgian director and documentarist for both TV and cinema. His many films include"Hiver 60" (1982), "Kids from Rio" (1990), "From the Grass Roots" (1990), "The Last Colonials" (1995), "Donka, X-ray of an African Hospital" (1997), "Mobutu, King of Zaire" (2000), "Iran, Veiled Appearance" (2002) and "Congo River" (2006)Info
Katanga Business
Documentary Feature
French
Voilà! | FF2009
Belgium
2009
120 min
OV
Thierry Michel
Thierry Michel
Christine Pireaux
Michel Téchy
Marie Quinton
Marc Hérouet
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