Mfumu Matensi

(BE)

Short film - Documentary

Finished - Major

2003 - 54 min - FR

Director : Nicolas de Borman, Samuel Tilman

Screenplay : Nicolas de Borman, Samuel Tilman

Producer : Eklektik Productions (BE)

Partners : CBA - Centre de l'Audiovisuel à  Bruxelles

Synopsis

Victor Mertens, known to the Congolese as Mfumu Matensi, is the oldest Caucasian Jesuit missionary alive in the Congo today. He has been living there for the last 65 years. Victor's life symbolizes the dreams and desillusions of the Belgian missionary project."Mfumu Matensi" is a toung man's viewpoint on the extraordinary destiny of one of the last witnesses of his generation.