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Joe Connor (Hugh Dancy) is teaching in Rwanda during his gap year. When the school he teaches at becomes a haven for thousands of Rwandans fleeing the genocide, Joe promises his brightest pupil, Marie (Clare-Hope Ashitey), that the UN soldiers will protect her from the hordes of extremist militia baying for blood outside the school. But when the UN abandon the refugees, Joe and the school’s headmaster, Father Christopher (John Hurt), face an agonising dilemma: should they leave or should they stand firm with the Rwandans. As the UN trucks force their way through the terrified refugees, Joe stares at the tear-stained face of Marie: what should he do?
Based on real events and filmed at the actual location where this story took place, SHOOTING DOGS is an emotionally gripping, authentic and powerful recreation of a tragic real life story that took place during the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Commentary, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Set in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. A young volunteer schoolteacher and a priest struggle to maintain a secondary school which has become a shelter for Tutsis and Hutus after the Belgian UN troops who were based there move out. Troubled that the ethnic hatreds and distrust are starting to creep into the school and knowing that it is only a matter of time before they are all killed, the two non-Rwandans cope and struggle in different ways. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: British Independent Film Awards, ...Shooting Dogs ( Beyond the Gates )
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52 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing,
By J W "Finding peace" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shooting Dogs [DVD] [2006] (DVD)
I highly recommend this film which is probably less well known than 'Hotel Rwanda', but which is no less powerful. From the moment the film started I was involved in the film. Hugh Dancy is brilliant as a idealistic young teacher and John Hurt turns in a elegant and understated performance as a catholic priest. Towards the end he utters one of the most powerful and moving lines of the film when faced with one of the Hutu killers. This is a very emotional film and be prepared to be in tears by the end of the movie. It highlights the important role, or lack of, of the UN and Western powers in preventing the genocide in Rwanda. It is hard to believe that it was only 12 years ago.
55 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The most powerful account of the 1994 genocide on film,
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This review is from: Shooting Dogs [DVD] [2006] (DVD)
Hotel Rwanda is the Hollywood attempt at the account of the genocide in which 800,000 Rwandans were killed in less than 3 months. In comparison, Shooting Dogs is a more comprehensive and emotionally involving account of the tradegy.
John Hurt is superb in his role as the Priest and headteacher of a school that hides Tutsis from Hutu extremists. The constraint of the UN peacekeepers in their role at the school and the response by the international is also played out accurately. The most touching aspect of the film perhaps is the role of the survivors in making the film and the credits inform of the loses they suffered. Rwanda, like East Timor and Cambodia has failed to get the public attention that the Holocaust has received and films like Shooting Dogs are deserved attempts to bring the tradegy home. The film has not failed to reduce friends and family to tears, one of the most powerful films released in recent times albeit to low publicity. To get a deeper understanding about the genocide I recommend Shake Hands With The Devil.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Different account of genocide,
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This review is from: Shooting Dogs [DVD] [2007] (DVD)
Totally surprised by this film. It was well acted and showed a different viewpoint to the genocide. i expected it to be ethnocentric, great white hero type of account-which it was a little but actually was not too disrespectful of the plight of the people and area and what they sufferred. I was surprised by this film. I would receommend viewing this but for a better account than this or Hotel Rwanda (also good) and a better understanding of the Rwandan Genocide and what it was all about-watch 'Sometimes in April. Brilliant and although difficult to watch-it is excellent - a film not to be missed.
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