SHOOTING DOGS
synopsis
April 6th 1994: a bloody genocide in central Africa gets underway. In just one hundred spring days, a million Rwandan Tutsis were massacred by their fellow Hutu countrymen and a small African country was turned into a charnel house. The barbarity was beyond imagination. But not beyond prevention. The UN was there, watching. Watching but not acting. And at the heart of it all a British priest and his young acolyte were forced to confront the depths of their faith, the limits of their courage and, ultimately, to make a choice. To remain with their people or to run away.
international title: | Shooting Dogs |
original title: | Shooting Dogs |
country: | United Kingdom, Germany |
year: | 2006 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Michael Caton-Jones |
film run: | 104' |
release date: | PT 08/12/2005, FR 08/03/2006, UK 31/03/2006, NL 06/2006, BE 19/05/2006 |
screenplay: | David Wolstencroft, Richard Alwyn, David Belton |
cast: | John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Dominique Horwitz, Susan Nalwoga, Steve Toussaint |
cinematography by: | Ivan Strasburg |
film editing: | Christian Lonk |
art director: | Bertram Strauß, Astrid Sieben, Dagmar Wessel |
costumes designer: | Dinah Collin |
music: | Dario Marianelli |
producer: | David Belton, Pippa Cross, Jens Meurer |
production: | BBC Films, Egoli Tossell Film, UK Film Council, CrossDay Productions Ltd. (UK) |
distributor: | Metrodome Distribution, Haut et Court (FR), A-Film Distribution (NL), Frenetic Films (CH), Timebandits Films (DE) |