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Débrouillez-Vous (2006)

Name: Débrouillez-Vous
Genre: Drama
Released: 1970-01-01T01:00:00+01:00
Cast: Silvia Fink, Kambere Mwangaza, Muhindo Bonne-Annee

Drama | 97 minutes

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Genre: Drama

Duration: 97 minuten

Country: Germany

Directed by: Markus Passera

Stars: Silvia Fink, Kambere Mwangaza, Muhindo Bonne-Annee

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Débrouillez-Vous plot

The journalist Silvia travels to the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo to shoot a documentary. From the start she is confronted with the harsh reality on the ground: only a few believe in the success of the first democratic elections that are in the pipeline. UN troops provide aid to groups of rebels in the hope of gaining their trust. Renegade mercenaries still scour the countryside to indoctrinate children with war rhetoric. Silvia has to conclude that people behave like pawns in an absurd game of which she cannot decipher the rules. Her stay turns into a nightmare when her driver runs over a child. There is now no escape: she has to risk all her journalistic skills to behave according to the old Congolese folk wisdom: 'Débrouillez-vous!' This was the former dictator Mobutu's way of telling the people: 'You can figure it out yourself!'