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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 .
Paul Rusesabagina (Kinyarwanda: [ɾusesɑβaɟinɑ]; [3] [4] born 15 June 1954) is a Rwandan human rights activist. He worked as the manager of the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, during a period in which it housed 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees fleeing the Interahamwe militia during the Rwandan genocide. [5]
Hotel Rwanda, a 2004 film dealing with the genocide that centers on the Hôtel des Mille Collines, a location also seen in Sometimes in April. A Sunday in Kigali (French title: Un Dimanche à Kigali), a 2006 Canadian feature film by Robert Favreau set during the genocide against Tutsi.
Rusesabagina - who was depicted in the Hollywood movie ‘Hotel Rwanda’ for his role saving Tutsis from the 1994 Rwandan genocide - suddenly appeared in custody in his home country earlier this ...
The 66-year-old former hotel manager was portrayed in the Oscar-nominated film "Hotel Rwanda" using his connections with the Hutu elite to protect Tutsis fleeing the slaughter.
KIGALI (Reuters) -A Rwandan court on Monday sentenced Paul Rusesabagina, a one-time hotel manager portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood film about the 1994 genocide, to 25 years in prison after he ...
This is a filmography for films and artistry on the graphic, theatrical and conventional, documental portrayal of the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis in 1994. In 2005 Alison Des Forges wrote that eleven years after the genocide films for popular audiences on the subject greatly increased "widespread realization of the horror that had taken the lives of more than half a million Tutsi".
KIGALI (Reuters) -A Rwandan appeals court on Monday upheld a 25-year jail sentence for Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed in the movie "Hotel Rwanda" sheltering hundreds of people during the ...