When the killing started

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Movie
German title When the killing started
Original title Sometimes in April
Country of production USA
UK
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 139 minutes
Rod
Director Raoul Peck
script Raoul Peck
production Daniel Delume
music Bruno Coulais
camera Eric Guichard
cut Jacques Comets
occupation

When the murder began (original title Sometimes in April ; German reference title Immer wieder im April ) is a film by the director Raoul Peck from 2005 . It tells the story of two brothers during and after the genocide in Rwanda , partly in the same places as the film Hotel Rwanda , such as the Hôtel des Mille Collines .

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While Augustin Muganza, who is himself a Hutu but married to a Tutsi , loses his family, his brother Honoré is one of the whip in the genocide that has to answer before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha .

Awards

The film ran in the competition at the Berlinale 2005 . At the award ceremony, however, the film came away empty-handed. The film Hotel Rwanda , which deals with the same topic, was also shown at this Berlinale . Sometimes in April won the Durban Film Festival later that year .

criticism

"Poignant drama about genocide, which carefully expands the bitter view of the crimes against humanity to include perspectives on hope and reconciliation."

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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.

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