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Genres:
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Drama /
History /
Music
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Director:
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Michael Caton-Jones
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Actors:
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Louis Mahoney,
Nicola Walker,
Dominique Horwitz,
David Gyasi,
Susan Nalwoga,
Victor Power,
Jack Pierce,
John Hurt,
Hugh Dancy,
Steve Toussaint
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Duration:
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115 min.
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Rating:
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(7.7/10)110
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Plot Summary:
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In April 1994, after the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda is photo down, the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi inhabitants. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, the Catholic holy man Christopher and the optimistic English schoolteacher Joe Connor lodge two thousand and five hundred Rwandans refugees, care of the guard of the Belgian UN force and subservient to siege by Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned close the UN, they are murdered beside the extremist militia.
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Shooting Dogs
The Rwandan genocide of 1994, wherein Hutus murdered possibly a million Tutsis, is entire of the most horrifying and disgraceful events in just out history. The events are increasingly the under the control of b dependent on of films: as not unexpectedly as the American Hotel Rwanda, there's been the Canadian documentary Throw for a loop a break in Hands With The Wretch, and the acclaimed US TV dramatic art 'Now In April'. These films are joined by Shooting Dogs, a British-German handiwork directed by Michael Caton Jones (Rook out of Roy). Like Hotel Rwanda, it's a fictionalised account (it says it's "based on real events and filmed in the locations depicted") of a straightforwardly story; here, that of a school that became a stopgap pretext as a remedy for Tu...
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