Hotel Rwanda
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hotel Rwanda |
| Original title | Hotel Rwanda |
| Country of production | USA , UK , Italy , South Africa |
| original language | English , French |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Terry George |
| script |
Keir Pearson Terry George |
| production |
Nicolas Meyer Izidore Codron |
| music |
Andrea Guerra Rupert Gregson-Williams |
| camera | Robert Fraisse |
| cut | Naomi Geraghty |
| occupation | |
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Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 feature film directed by Terry George about the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi and temperate Hutu in 1994. The film is based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina , who saved over 1200 people from certain death.
action
The film tells the based on a true story history of the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali during the genocide in Rwanda in the spring of 1994. In the existing for many decades of conflict between the majority of Hutus and the politically and economically dominant Tutsi is on the evening of 6 April 1994 the plane of President Juvénal Habyarimana shot down while approaching Kigali, which escalated the conflict. As a result, around one million people in Rwanda die in just 100 days as a result of acts of violence committed by Hutu militias, members of the military and the police. The focus of the film is the hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina and the fate of his family. Paul takes over the management of the four-star hotel "Des Milles Collines" after the Belgian hotel manager has left. Paul manages to save his family and the neighboring families from Hutu rebels by bribing the leader with money. He can also take his family to the hotel. After the Red Cross sister Pat Archer brings twenty orphans to the hotel, Paul finally grants more than 1200 refugees access to the hotel.
The world public does not seem to care much about the genocides in Africa. The planned action of the Génocidaires - especially in the form of the Interahamwe militia - is organized: The radio station Radio-Télévision Libre des Mille Collines also incites the Hutu. Meanwhile, UN Colonel Oliver is struggling to get additional interventions from abroad. The UN soldiers are not allowed to intervene in violent clashes. The newly arrived UN soldiers only help foreign hotel guests to leave the country. It also removes the last obstacle that could prevent the Hutu militias from killing the refugees in the hotel.
Paul succeeds in bribing the commanding general of the Hutu militias with alcoholic beverages and cash. When he was forced to vacate the hotel by Hutu militias, Paul called Sabena President Tillens in Belgium. He then called the French president and ensured that the Hutu militias received the order to withdraw in good time. Colonel Oliver and Paul Rusesabagina finally manage the evacuation of the refugees on their own. After numerous appeals and phone calls from the refugees abroad, they manage to get them to leave Rwanda. While the refugees are being driven by truck to a refugee camp on the border, the Hutu army and the Tutsi rebels are still fighting each other. Paul's wife Tatiana finds her two little nieces in the refugee camp, the children of her brother Thomas Mirama and her sister-in-law, who have apparently died. Paul's family is eventually flown to Belgium.
Others
Bloody scenes were largely avoided in the film.
“You are only hinting at the massacres. Why?
- How can I bring the impossible to the canvas and show how people chop up other people with machetes? It would have been unbearable. "
The figure of Colonel Oliver bears many traits of Roméo Dallaire , who was there as head of the United Nations support mission for Rwanda , which was greatly reduced after the start of the genocide .
Reviews
"Shameful, oppressive, thrilling"
"Impressive, terrifying, deeply human and worth seeing, without turning the lifesaver into a hero without any human weakness"
“Leading actor Don Cheadle actually deserves an Oscar for his masterpiece [...]. Particularly commendable: Terry George always sticks to the perspective of the protagonist and does not indulge in over-brutal massacres, because the hint alone is terrible enough. Not a pleasant, but very important film. Strong! "
“A convincing film that manages the balancing act between historical reconstruction and moving narrative in an impressive way and which, despite its stringent internal perspective and occasional exaggerations, also allows historical events to pass in review. - Worth seeing"
Awards
The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Don Cheadle for Best Actor, Sophie Okonedo for Best Supporting Actress, and Keir Pearson and Terry George for Best Original Screenplay. At the Berlinale 2005 the film ran out of competition. He received the Humanitas Prize in 2005 . It won the Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival . The film was nominated for three Political Film Society Awards in 2004, one of which it won. The title track Million Voices by Jerry “Wonder” Duplessis, Andrea Guerra and Wyclef Jean was nominated for the 2006 Grammys .
Editions
On the German DVD from Universum from 2005 ( EAN 8-28767-26559-9) is u. a. includes an audio commentary by Terry George and an audio commentary by Paul Rusesabagina and Wyclef Jean as well as a featurette , interviews , a making-of and the documentary Return to Rwanda .
literature
- Christiane Reichart-Burikukiye: The genocide on the screen: Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April and the memory of the genocide in Rwanda. In: Astrid Erll, Stephanie Wodianka (ed.): Film and cultural memory. Plurimedial constellations. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020443-8 , pp. 77-105.
- Christian Gudehus , Stewart Anderson: Hotel Rwanda - Readings of a film about history. In: Werkstatt Geschichte (2010), issue 54, pp. 71–84 ( PDF ).
Web links
- Hotel Rwanda in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hotel Rwanda atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Daniela Sannwald: Hotel Rwanda . In: Kinofenster.de, April 1, 2005
- A drink with the murderers - Interview with Paul Rusesabagina . In: Die Zeit No. 07/2005, February 10, 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Hotel Rwanda . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2005 (PDF; test number: 101 798 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Hotel Rwanda . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Cover of the mentioned DVD.
- ^ Online resource , accessed November 12, 2007.
- ↑ Hotel Rwanda - Representing the unrepresentable. In: Kino-Zeit.de. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .