HOTEL RWANDA

Year: 2004
USA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distribution / United Artists
UK: Entertainment Film Distributors
Cast: Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo, Desmond Dube, Mothusi Magano, Leleti Khumalo, Joaquin Phoenix, David O'Hara, Cara Seymour, Fana Mokoena, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Tony Kgoroge, Mosa Kaiser, Roberto Citran, Harriet Manamela, Antonio David Lyons, Sibusiso Mhlangu, Simo Mogwaza Jeremiah Ndlovu, Thulani Nyembe, Kid Sitholo
Director: Terry George
Countries: Canada / UK / Italy / South Africa
USA: 110 mins
UK: 122 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 on appeal for violence, disturbing images and brief strong language (previously rated: R in 2004)
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate war images and strong language
USA Release Date: 7 January 2005 (Limited Release - wider)
USA Release Date: 22 December 2004 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 4 March 2005
UK Release Date: 25 February 2005 (Limited Release - London)

Synopsis

Based on a true story, HOTEL RWANDA is the widely acclaimed film about the real life Rwandan hero who saved more than 1200 lives in the face of appalling danger.

The film tells the inspiring and profoundly moving story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in Rwanda, who finds the unexpected courage to shelter over a thousand refugees from certain death during the insanity and inhumanity of the massacres in his country at the end of the twentieth century.

Directed and co-written by Terry George (writer of IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, director of SOME MOTHER'S SON), HOTEL RWANDA stars Don Cheadle (OCEAN'S ELEVEN & TWELVE) as Rusesabagina and the UK's Sophie Okonedo (DIRTY PRETTY THINGS) as his wife Tatiana.