Djo Tunda Wa Munga, Viva Riva!

Djo (pronounced Joe) Tunda Wa Munga has created the first movie made in the Republic of the Congo in 25 years, Viva Riva! Host Stephen Schaefer sits down with the writer/director to discuss this new dramatic film. Unabashedly sexual, violent and paced like a Hollywood thriller, this gangster saga follows Riva, who has returned to Kinshasa, the Congo city, with a stolen truck of gas which he plans to sell to the highest bidder. Munga, French and Belgian-trained as a filmmaker, explains that the excitingly lurid scenario where prostitutes, a priest, lesbians, and sadistic killers collide is no fantasy but the reality of a city and a country where money rules.

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