Nick Fraser
Narrator (voice)
This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.
Release Date | 2004-02-24 |
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Runtime | 1h 24m |
Directors | Renaat Lambeets, Peter Bate |
Producers | Wessel van der Hammen, Nick Fraser, Paul Pauwels, Philippe Van Meerbeeck, Bill Binnemans, Olaf Grunert, Iikka Vehkalahti |
Writer | Peter Bate |