Hotel Rwanda (2004)

7.7

England

Drama History War

121 min

2004

Antonio David Lyons Rosie Motene Xolani Mali Harriet Lenabe Mduduzi Mabaso Roberto Citran Cara Seymour Lennox Mathabathe David O'Hara Neil McCarthy Leleti Khumalo Don Cheadle Lebo Mashile Tony Kgoroge Hakeem Kae-Kazim Ofentse Modiselle Desmond Dube Jean Reno Joaquin Phoenix Fana Mokoena Nick Nolte Sophie Okonedo

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.