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Hotel Rwanda
Drama, History, War
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers seeking a serious, emotionally direct account of mass atrocity centered on ordinary courage amid institutional failure.
- Tone
- bleak, tense, melancholic
- Payoff
- heartbreak, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- genocide, moral courage, civilian survival, international indifference, leadership
- Setting
- late twentieth-century civil conflict, besieged urban hotel and refugee shelter
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