Shooting Dogs

Shooting Dogs

2006
★★★★☆ 7.5/10
⏱️ 115 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 EN
DramaHistory
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.

Cast

John Hurt
John Hurt
Christopher
Hugh Dancy
Hugh Dancy
Joe Connor
Dominique Horwitz
Dominique Horwitz
Capitaine Charles Delon
Nicola Walker
Nicola Walker
Rachel
David Gyasi
David Gyasi
François
Steve Toussaint
Steve Toussaint
Roland

User Reviews

Andres Gomez
★ 8/10
Great drama and great characters for the untold story of Hutus and Tutsis conflict in Rwanda and the naïveness of the good hearted people against the cruel reality and the tough decisions to make.
September 27, 2013

Crew

Director
Michael Caton-Jones
Writer
David Wolstencroft
Producer
Pippa Cross, Jens Meurer, Richard Alwyn

Production

CrossDay Productions, BBC Film, Egoli Tossell Film, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Invicta Capital, UK Film Council, ZDF, ARTE

Keywords

destruction of a civilizationrapecivil warhutututsirwandan genocideinhumanityaggressioncoup d'etatvandalism