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Hotel Rwanda

When the world closed its eyes, he opened his arms.

7.7 / 10

121 minutes

2004-12-22

English

IT

Actors :

Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Fana Mokoena, Joaquin Phoenix, Jean Reno, Desmond Dube, Ofentse Modiselle, Mathabo Pieterson, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Tony Kgoroge, Lebo Mashile, Antonio David Lyons, Leleti Khumalo, Neil McCarthy

Description

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

9/4/2023, 4:58:10 AM

Don Cheadle is super as Paul Rusesabagina, the manager of a Belgian-owned hotel in Kigali in 1994 during the civil strife that saw Hutus relentlessly and ruthlessly persecute the minority Tutsis in Rwanda. Once he is directly touched by one such incident, he decides that he must do something to help and so turns his luxury accommodation into a refuge for hundreds of dispossessed and terrified peop...