
Hotel Rwanda
- released:2004-12-22
- genres: Drama, History, War
- duration:121m
- casts: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Fana Mokoena, Joaquin Phoenix
- Country: Italy, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production: Lionsgate, United Artists, The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition of South Africa, Miracle Pictures, Seamus, Inside Track, Kiagli Releasing, Mikado Film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
overview
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.