
“When the world closed its eyes, he opened his arms.”
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.
Release Date: 12/22/2004
Runtime: 122 minutes
Languages: English, French
Director: Terry George
Budget: $17.5M
Revenue: $38.0M
Companies: United Artists, Miracle Pictures, Seamus, Inside Track, Kiagli Releasing, Mikado Film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Artisan Entertainment, Lions Gate Films
Countries: United States of America, United Kingdom, Italy, South Africa
CinemaSerf
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 and ultimately compassion that stays with you long after you've finished watching.

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

David O'Hara
David

Joaquin Phoenix
Jack Daglish

Mosa Kaiser
Elys Rusesabagina
Mathabo Pieterson
Diane Rusesabagina
2019

2000

2013

2019

2002

2002

1991

2001

1966

1995

2014

2000

2023