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Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 drama film directed by Terry George based on the Rwandan Genocide. It is a co-production among Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, and South Africa, and the first-ever co-production between the rival independent film studios Lions Gate Films and United Artists.

Plot

Based on a true event, this movie is about Paul Rusesabagina (Cheadle), a Hutu who managed the four-star Sabena-owned Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, Rwanda. When the 1994 Rwandan Genocide broke out, he thought of only saving his immediate family, but as he saw what was happening, he opened the hotel to Tutsis and Hutu refugees. He used all the favors he had built up as manager of the hotel and saved the lives of 1,268 refugees. The movie ends with Rusesabagina's family and the hotel evacuees crossing the Tutsi rebel line to a refugee camp and from there to Tanzania. Rusesabagina takes orphan children with him on an already full bus. The text suggests some of the generals were punished for their crimes.

As of March 2006, the film is ranked #47 in IMDB's all-time rankings list.

Main cast

Don Cheadle
as Paul Rusesabagina
Sophie Okonedo
as Tatiana Rusesabagina
Nick Nolte
as Colonel Oliver
Fana Mokoena
as General Augustin Bizimungu
Joaquin Phoenix
as Jack
Jean Reno
as Sabena Airlines President, Mr. Till

Other

A few differences with the actual story are:

Tatiana Rusesabagina wasn't really angry about Paul putting her and her children on a truck to escape the Mille Collines hotel, but was more or less sad about the decision which she accepted due to the circumstances.

Trivia

Some have complained that the film does not give Canadian Lt-Gen. Roméo Dallaire due credit for his role in trying to stop the violence. Dallaire was the Force Commander of UNAMIR, the ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping force sent to Rwanda during the massacre. He and several other Canadian commanders are depicted in a fictionalized form, although in a positive light, as Col. Oliver (played by Nick Nolte
).

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