IN THE darkness of the movie theater, a caravan of cars lumbers along a dirt road, headlights blinking in the twilight. Then a voice in French comes forth. “You never knew about that night in Katanga.

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This film is the result of more than two years of work tracking down archive material and witnesses close to Mobutu in Africa, Europe and the U.S. More than 950 hours of footage have been seen by the ...