Hotel Rwanda

2004 • 2h 2m •

Drama History War

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★ 7.7/10

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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.

"When the world closed its eyes, he opened his arms."

Top Billed Cast

Don Cheadle

Paul Rusesabagina

Sophie Okonedo

Tatiana Rusesabagina

Nick Nolte

Colonel Oliver

Fana Mokoena

General Bizimungu

Desmond Dube

Dube

Hakeem Kae-Kazim

George Rutaganda

Tony Kgoroge

Gregoire

Cara Seymour

Pat Archer

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C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic

2023-09-04

Don Cheadle is super as Paul Rusesabagina, the manager of a Belgian-owned hotel in Kigali in 1994 during the civil strife that saw Hutus relentlessly and ruthlessly persecute the minority Tutsis in Rwanda. Once he is directly touched by one such incident, he decides that he must do something to help and so turns his luxury accommodation into a refuge for hundreds of dispossessed and terrified people. With the help the Red Cross and some foreign press he walks a delicate tightrope trying to keep everyone safe, fed and watered. This is a brave and compelling story of the unimaginable brutality a...