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Seated At His Right

1968, Movie, NR, 100 mins

Seated At His Right: Review

Though marketed as a blaxploitation picture, this moody tale was inspired by the life and death of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Congo. The charismatic revolutionary, whose rise and fall is also charted in Raul Peck's 2000 film LUMUMBA, took office in 1960 and was assassinated less than a year later. Though the film gets bogged down in religious symbolism, it's a serious and distubing work by Italian director Valerio Zurlini, whose fi... read more leave a comment