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Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 biographical drama film directed by Terry George, who also served as producer and co-screenwriter alongside Keir Pearson. The cast includes Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, and Nick Nolte. The film, produced in South Africa, the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom, is presented in French and English. It depicts the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, focusing on moral courage and refuge, with the narrative set in Kigali at the Hôtel des Mille Collines.
The film has a runtime of 121 or 122 minutes and was distributed by United Artists and Starz Entertainment. It received a budget of 17,500,000 and generated 38,000,000 in revenue. Andrea Guerra and Rupert Gregson-Williams composed the music, while Robert Fraisse was the director of photography. The film was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. It won the European Film Award for Best Composer and was named to the National Board of Review’s Top Ten Films.
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7.7Inspired 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.
Cast
- Don Cheadle as Paul Rusesabagina
- Sophie Okonedo as Tatiana Rusesabagina
- Nick Nolte as Colonel Oliver
- Fana Mokoena as General Bizimungu
- Desmond Dube as Dube
- Hakeem Kae-Kazim as George Rutaganda
Themes
- rwanda
- refugee
- refugee camp
- tutsi
- militia
- rwandan genocide
- based on true story
- murder
- slaughter
- dead body
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Encyclopedic overview
Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 biographical historical drama film co-written and directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay by George and Keir Pearson, and stars Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina and his wife Tatiana. The film depicts Rusesabagina's efforts to save the lives of his family and more than 1,500 other refugees by providing them with shelter in the besieged Hôtel des Mille Collines during the Rwandan genocide, which occurred during the spring of 1994. Hotel Rwanda explores genocide, political corruption, and the repercussions of violence.
The film was a co-production between United Artists and Lions Gate Films, and was commercially distributed by United Artists theatrically and by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for home media. Hotel Rwanda premiered in theaters in limited release in the United States on 22 December 2004 and in wide release on 4 February 2005, grossing more than $23 million in domestic ticket sales. It earned an additional $10 million in business through international release to top out at a combined total of nearly $34 million in gross revenue.
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