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Leon Gast, Oscar-winning director of the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ documentary When We Were Kings – obituary
Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in 1974; the two decades it took Gast to bring his footage of the fight to the screen were vindicated when the film triumphed at the Oscars in 1996. The bout was staged in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) by the promoter Don King, who had convinced the country’s dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, to put up a purse of $10 million on the basis that the televising of the fight would hugely enhance Zaire’s profile.
