Round 9: Tossup 13

A leader of this non-Pacific country gave two Italian directors as many extras they needed to re-enact historical events in a 1971 time-travel mondo film. A director born in this country explored his childhood in Kinshasa in a film subtitled The Death of a Prophet, whose subject he revisited in the 1991 biopic Lumumba. To critique the “great American virtue” of sincerity, a film by that director born in this country plays audio of Schwarzenegger, Bill Clinton, and other politicians (*) apologizing. A Ukrainian-American director filmed ritual dances of this country’s “living gods” in the film Divine Horsemen. A director born in this country explored the lives of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and MLK through the words of James Baldwin in the documentary I am Not Your Negro. For 10 points, Raoul Peck was born in what country where Maya Deren studied Vodou? ■END■ (10[2])

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