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Release Date: March 9, 2007 (NY; wider release: March 16)[br] [br] Studio: IFC Films[br] [br] Director: Michael Caton-Jones[br] [br] Screenwriter: David Wolstencroft[br] [br] Starring: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Dominique Horwitz[br] [br] Genre: Drama[br] [br] MPAA Rating: R (for strong violence, disturbing images and language)[br] [br] Plot Summary: Joe [br]Connor (Hugh Dancy), charismatic and idealistic, is a young man taking [br]a year out. While his friends are backpacking around India or lying on [br]a beach in Thailand, Joe has chosen a "real" experience - teaching in a [br]Rwandan school. He is looking forward to stunning his mates with tales [br]of adventure and life at the sharp end. His enthusiasm for Africa makes [br]him popular with the pupils. To Francois, the school groundsman, Joe is [br]a real friend.[br] [br][br] [br]The school is headed by Father Christopher (John Hurt) an English Roman [br]Catholic priest. Christopher has spent nearly all his working life in [br]Africa. The cycles of violence that he has witnessed over the years, [br]throughout the continent, have made the struggle to keep his faith [br]alive increasingly hard. Now he is wearier than ever, fearing for [br]Rwanda as it sinks deeper and deeper into a mire of ethnic hatred and [br]political corruption.[br] [br][br] [br]Every evening Joe is on the running track coaching Marie (Claire-Hope [br]Ashitey), a young Tutsi girl. She is an exceptional talent and Joe sees [br]her as a shining example of a brighter future. But in the Rwanda of [br]April 1994 ethnic tension between Tutsis and Hutus erupts into [br]genocide. Joe's world is turned upside down.[br] [br][br] [br]The killing escalates through the city and the school becomes a refuge [br]for Europeans and Tutsis. A contingent of Belgian UN soldiers, led by [br]Capitaine Delon (Dominique Horwitz), has been stationed there to [br]monitor the fragile peace accord but, now, as the extremist Hutu [br]government vows to eliminate all Tutsis, the refugees wonder if the UN [br]will really protect them from the machete-wielding Hutu militias who [br]slowly start to surround the school.[br] [br][br] [br]Joe burns with a desire to "do" something, which puts him at odds with [br]Christopher, who has become more and more hardened - Africa, he [br]believes, is beyond hope. Joe promises a distraught Marie that she will [br]be safe - that he will make sure the world outside doesn't desert them. [br]He ventures out into Kigali to pick up a television crew to bring back [br]and publicise their plight. But things turn ugly at a roadblock. Joe [br]and the crew are held at gunpoint by drunken militia and he discovers, [br]to his horror, that one of the thugs is Francois, his friend, with a [br]blood-stained machete in his hand.[br] [br][br] [br]The killing gets closer and closer to the school but with a weak UN [br]mandate Capitaine Delon can do nothing to stop it. The European [br]refugees are evacuated by French troops. The Rwandans are left behind, [br]their hope draining away. Their worst fears are realised when the UN [br]troops are ordered to pull out and abandon the Rwandans: Joe is told he [br]must leave too - or face certain death. Terrified, he clambers aboard a [br]UN truck, aware that he has betrayed his promise to Marie. Joe waits on [br]the UN truck for Christopher but is astonished to discover that he has [br]decided to remain behind with the Rwandans - a people he has grown to [br]love.[br] [br][br] [br]After the UN convoy pulls away Christopher makes one final desperate [br]attempt to save the handful of children he can squeeze into the back of [br]the last vehicle remaining. Marie's father Roland pushes her forward - [br]her face is numb with fear and confusion for she knows she will never [br]see her father again. But the truck is stopped at a Hutu roadblock. [br]Machetes glint in the firelight and whilst Christopher tries to [br]distract the soldiers, Marie slips silently out of the truck and starts [br]to run, faster and faster, deeper and deeper into the African bush...

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