Victor Mertens, Mfumu Matensi de son nom congolais, est le plus vieux missionnaire jésuite blanc encore en vie au Congo. Il y vit depuis près de soixante-cinq ans. Il y a dirigé la Compagnie de Jésus durant la période troublée de l’indépendance. La vie de Victor synthétise les rêves et les désillusions du projet missionnaire belge.
Mfumu Matensi accompagne Nicolas, petit-neveu de Victor, dans son voyage à la rencontre d’un des derniers témoins du monde missionnaire d’avant-guerre.

Victor Mertens, known to the Congolese as Mfumu Matensi, is the oldest white Jesuit missionary alive in the Congo today. He has been living there for over sixty years. He headed the Society of Jesus during the troubled times of the independence. Victor’s life summarizes the dreams and disillusions of the Belgian missionary enterprise. Today, he is an old powerless chief who has accepted to go back over his past, during an intimate exchange with Nicolas, his great-nephew, who has come to the Congo to meet him.



R/D : Samuel Tilman, Nicolas de Borman – Sc : Samuel Tilman, Nicolas de Borman – Ph/C : Samuel Tilman – S : Nicolas de Borman – M/Ed : Virginie Messiaen – P : Eklektik Productions – 54′ – Betacam – Doc – Coul/Col et/and N&B/B&W – Contact : Eklektik Productions