Shooting Dogs
(2006)
★ 7.5 IMDb · 168 votes
Year: 2006
Runtime: 115 мин
Country: Germany, United Kingdom
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Джон Хёрт, Хью Дэнси, Dominique Horwitz, Nicola Walker, Дэвид Джеси, Стив Туссен, Клэр-Хоуп Эшити, Susan Nalwoga, Victor Power, Victor Power
Plot
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.
In April 1994, after the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda is shot down, the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, the Catholic Priest Christopher (Sir John Hurt) and the idealistic English teacher Joe Connor (Hugh Dancy) lodge two thousand five hundred Rwandans refugees, under the protection of the Belgian U.N. force, and under siege by Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the U.N., they are murdered by the extremist militia.