Bloomsbury Video Library - Death in Geneva: The Poisoning of Felix Moumié
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{"isbn":9781350917651,"description":"On November 3rd, 1960, Félix Moumié, the famous independence fighter of Cameroon, also called Cameroon\u2019s Lumumba, died in Geneva. An agent of the French secret services poisoned him. His body was transferred to Conakry, Guinea, where it was embalmed and secured in a sarcophagus. To this day, Cameroon authorities refuse to bury one of his great sons in his own country. It was a commando group of sabotage and killers of the French secret services that organized the murder of Moumié in Geneva. Swiss authorities knew the murderer, but under pressure of France, never judged him. The judicial inquiry ended by a dismissal of charges. France dreaded a public procedure -for fear of revelations on its dirty war in Cameroon. 45 years later, Marthe Moumié visits the grave of her husband. She attempts to realize an old promise. On the eve of Felix Moumié\u2019s death, she had made the pledge she would bury his body in his home land, Cameroon. But Marthe's visit to the Conakry cemetery takes a dramatic turn: she finds out that Moumié\u2019s grave had been broken into, and his coffin as well as the embalmed body had disappeared. The film looks critically at France\u2019s dirty war in Cameroon and investigates in minute detail the evidence of Moumié\u2019s murder and the reactions of both French and Swiss authorities. As we do so, we accompany Marthe Moumiéin her attempt to learn the truth about the murder of her husband and to obtain his rehabilitation. Language - English","videoId":6312233201112,"subscription":"bvl_historyculture","title":"Death in Geneva: The Poisoning of Felix Moumié","xml_source":"bvl_historyculture_video-vra.xml","facets":"africanPolitics , African politics , documentaryFilm , Documentary film , contemporaryHistoryPost1945 , Contemporary history (Post 1945) , death , Death , genderAndIdentity , Gender and identity , imperialism , Imperialism , nationalism , Nationalism , corruption , Corruption , crimePunishmentAndJustice , Crime, punishment and justice , violence , Violence , _19601969 , 1960\u20131969 , made_20002009 , 2000\u20132009 , english , English , cameroon , Cameroon , switzerland , Switzerland , origin_switzerland , Switzerland , video , Video , filmAndCinema , Film and Cinema , societyAndSocietalIssues , Society and societal issues , _19001999 , 1900\u20131999 , africa , Africa , origin_europe , Europe , historyByPeriod , History by period , identity , Identity , politicsAndPoliticalIdeologies , Politics and Political Ideologies , europe , Europe , made_2000Present , 2000\u2013present , africanStudies , African Studies , anthropology , Anthropology , history , History ,","contenttypeorder":3,"productname":"bvl_all","contentType":"video","identifier":"IC-Moumie_6312233201112","browse_author":"Frank Garbely (Director), Quartier Latin Media (ICTV) (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video)) and Frank Garbely (Screenplay by)","subscription_list":["bvl_historyculture"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","browse_search":"IC-Moumie","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/99c674c3-dce7-44ef-9e07-1c29ca2da5ff/9461a9c2-3de6-4db6-979c-469de900cf56/1280x720/match/image.jpg","series_id":"series_politicalAssassinations","series":"Political Assassinations","date_of_publication":2007,"territorial":"AS GU MP PH PR UM US VI","publisher":"Quartier Latin Media (ICTV)","id_search":"IC-Moumie","facet":["_19001999","_19601969","africa","africanPolitics","africanStudies","anthropology","cameroon","contemporaryHistoryPost1945","corruption","crimePunishmentAndJustice","death","documentaryFilm","english","europe","filmAndCinema","genderAndIdentity","history","historyByPeriod","identity","imperialism","made_20002009","made_2000Present","nationalism","origin_europe","origin_switzerland","politicsAndPoliticalIdeologies","societyAndSocietalIssues","switzerland","video","violence"],"authors":"Frank Garbely~Quartier Latin Media (ICTV)~Frank Garbely"}
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