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MERCHANTS OF MIRACLES

By Gilles Remiche

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Synopsis

"Marchands de Miracles" is a journey into the heart of Kinshasa, to discover the healing churches, also known as churches of revival.

 

Their promises of healing incurable diseases, obtaining visas for the European Eldorado, or immediate prosperity attract the majority of Congolese to these churches. It's a bewildering universe where the violence of the cults mirrors that of the misery; where the tragi-comic discourse of the televangelists, somewhere between cynicism, megalomania and surrealism, responds to the desperate naiveté of the faithful.

A coproduction Les Films de la Passerelle, Le Centre du cinéma et de l’audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique, RTBF, ARTE

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Year: 2006
Running time: 52'
Language: French 
Director: Gilles Remiche
Photography: Gilles Remiche
Sound: Origan Cannella
Editing: Joel Mann
Producer: 
Christine Pireaux - Les Films de la Passerelle
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