Shooting Dogs

United Kingdom, Germany

2005

115 Min

Color

2.35:1

French, English

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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EXEC Richard Alwyn, Ruth Caleb, David M. Thompson, Paul Trijbits

PROD David Belton, Pippa Cross, Jens Meurer

SCR David Wolstencroft, Richard Alwyn, David Belton

CAST John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz, Louis Mahoney, Nicola Walker, Steve Toussaint, David Gyasi, Susan Nalwoga

In April 1994, after the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda is shot down, the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, the Catholic priest Christopher and the idealistic English teacher Joe Connor lodge two thousand and five hundred Rwandans refugees, under the protection of the Belgian UN force and under siege by Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they are murdered by the extremist militia. —IMDb

Director

Michael Caton-Jones

Michael Caton-Jones (born Michael Jones; 15 October 1957) is the director of such films as Scandal, Rob Roy, Memphis Belle and The Jackal. Caton-Jones was born in Broxburn, Lothian, Scotland. He attended to St Marys Academy in Bathgate, and trained at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, Bucks, UK. A lifelong Celtic FC supporter, Caton-Jones is married to film producer Laura Viederman, with whom he has 2 children (Romy b. 2001 and Charlie b. 2003). He also has two daughters from a previous relationship (Daisy b. 1983 and Molly b. 1990). His film Basic Instinct 2 won several Razzies at the 2007 ceremony. —Wikipedia

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lolo341

27Nov11

This little known excellent film was originally released in 2005 with the title Shooting Dogs but is also known as Behind the Gates. It fits right in there with Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April, each telling of the same horrors from a different angle. Along with the PBS documentary Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda, these films should be mandatory viewing for anyone seeking to understand the events of the genocide.