#congo war

DARK OF THE SUN (1968) - JIM BROWN: AN AMERICAN LEGEND (Part 5/10)

Also known as Last Train To Katanga and The Mercenaries, this Congo war movie directed by Jack Cardiff is an incredibly tensed action packed movie starring JIM BROWN who was given star-lead billing on the back of his start appearance in The Dirty Dozen one year before (see Part 1) along with Rod Taylor and the ever gorgeous Yvette Mimieux.

Above are the vintage Japanese and US half sheet poster. Both with fantastic Art by Frank McCarthy.

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♫ Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner ♫

I am stepping out of my comfort zone tonight … WAYYYYYY out of it!  In fact, I’m so far out of my usual that I can almost hear Stevie Wonder saying, “What the Sam Heck are you doin’, woman?”  Well, I have our friend Clive over at Take It Easy to thank for planting this one in my brain!  He mentioned it, I went and listened, and … lo and behold, I smiled!  And at the last line, I … laughed!!!  I…

ADF attacks in DR Congo may constitute war crimes: UN Human Rights office

FILE PHOTO: Democratic Republic of Congo military personnel (FARDC) on patrol against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) and the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU) rebels near Beni in North-Kivu province. REUTERS

The attacks committed by the Allied Democratic Forces, a militia that operates in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo may constitute war crimes, a report…

Congo and Africa’s World War: Crash Course World History 221

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The Laughing Man - English Subtitles

The movie consists mostly out of an interview with Siegfried Müller, a German mercenary who fought in the civil war in the Congo of 1965 ff, a period during which the dictatorial president Tschombe employed mercenaries against the Simba Rebellion.

The interview was conducted, under partly false pretenses, by a film crew from the German Democratic Republic (Müller thought the film crew was West German - he had a dislike of East Germans), who wanted to produce a film which the explicit intent to put the Western Bloc in a negative light.

It is nonetheless an interesting historic document, since Müller is given room to talk about his personal perspective, both as participant and eye-witness in the war. None of what he says is a neutral report; all of it is a strictly personal account of Müller with all attached biases, but that is part of the value of the interview as a document.