Shooting Dogs ( Beyond the Gates )

Shooting Dogs (DVD) (*)

$21.99

Original Title: Beyond the Gates
Screened, competed or awarded at:
British Independent Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Michael Caton-Jones

Written By:
David Wolstencroft
Richard Alwyn

Actors:
John Hurt ..... Christopher
Hugh Dancy ..... Joe Connor
Dominique Horwitz ..... Capitaine Charles Delon
Louis Mahoney ..... Sibomana
Nicola Walker ..... Rachel
Steve Toussaint ..... Roland
David Gyasi ..... François
Susan Nalwoga ..... Edda
Victor Power ..... Julius
Jack Pierce ..... Mark
Musa Kasonka Jr. ..... Boniface
Kizito Ssentamu Kayiira ..... Pierre
Claire-Hope Ashitey ..... Marie

Synopsis:

Set in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. A young volunteer schoolteacher and a priest struggle to maintain a secondary school which has become a shelter for Tutsis and Hutus after the Belgian UN troops who were based there move out. Troubled that the ethnic hatreds and distrust are starting to creep into the school and knowing that it is only a matter of time before they are all killed, the two non-Rwandans cope and struggle in different ways.

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 30 November, 2007.

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