Hotel Rwanda
Synopsis: The manager of an important hotel in Rwanda manages to keep the violence outside his hotel while the genocide takes place outside.
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The Milles Collines hotel in Kigali, Rwanda played an important role during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. This film is based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager at that time who provided housing to over a thousand refugees and kept them safe while outside extremists of the Hutu ethnical group were committed to eliminate all the Tutsis, often giving them a horrible death by machete.
The film does a very good job presenting how the conflict played out, including the positions taken by the United Nations, the Rwandan military, the rebels, the victims and the media, and like other films about this subject (see Beyond The Gates and Sometimes In April) it highlights the nonsense of it all.
Don Cheadly is at his very best in this film playing Mr. Rusesabagina, and also worth mentioning is Nick Nolte as the United Nations officer who sees all the atrocities but has his hands tied with orders to not intervene. If you are going to watch just one movie about the Rwandan genocide this is your best choice.
©2008 by Miguel Grinberg
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