Hotel Rwanda 2010

Type: movie
Title: Hotel Rwanda
IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395169/
Release Date: 4 February 2005 (USA)
Genre: Drama | History | Thriller | War
Tagline: A true story of a man who fought impossible odds to save everyone he could and created a place where hope survived.
Plot: The true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
Plot Keywords: Hotel | Hotel Manager | Atrocity | Militia | Rwanda
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Mpaa: Rated PG-13 on appeal for violence, disturbing images and brief strong language.
Parents Guide: View content advisory for parents
Runtime: 121 min
Country: UK | USA | Italy | South Africa
Language: English | French
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Sound Mix: DTS | Dolby Digital
Certification: Brazil:14 | Indonesia:Dewasa | Iceland:14 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Hungary:14 | Argentina:13 | South Korea:12 | Malaysia:18PL (DVD) | Sweden:15 | Australia:M | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Finland:K-15 | Germany:12 | Ireland:1
Filming Locations: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Company: United Artists
Soundtrack: The Chosen
Trivia: The screenwriter spent one year writing the first draft of the script. During the process, he called the Rwandan embassy in DC. The woman who picked up the phone was a survivor who stayed at the Milles Collines Hotel.
Goofs: Factual errors: English was not at that time an official language in Rwanda, but the signs at the hotel are in English first with French below. Also, advertisements and shop names in English can be seen.
Quotes: [first lines] George Rutaganda:[voiceover] When people ask me, good listeners, why do I hate all the Tutsi, I say, "Read our history." The Tutsi were collaborators for the Belgian colonists, they stole our Hutu land, they whipped us. Now they have come ba
Movie Connections: Referenced in The Benchwarmers (2006)