Shooting Dogs

original title:
Shooting Dogs
other titles:
Beyond the Gates
country / year of production:
Great Britain , Germany / 2005 (x)
original length:
115 min. , color
premiere:
CDN: 11 September 2005, Toronto Film Festival
genre:
melodrama
based on:
director:
Michael Caton-Jones
film script:
David Wolstencroft , Richard Alwyn
producer:
cinematographer:
editor:
composer:
cast (role):
John Hurt , Dominique Horwitz , Hugh Dancy
more:
plot synopsis:
The film takes place during the Rwandan genocide and tells the story of an exhausted Catholic priest and a young idealistic English teacher. Their choice is to stay with thousands of Tutsis and be massacred just like them or to flee and save their lives.
keywords:
genocide , civilians , escape , UN soldiers , authenticity , women during wartime
war:
Ruandian Civil War (1994)
literature:
Urs P. Behrendt. Die Verfolgung des Völkermords in Ruanda durch internationale und nationale Gerichte - Zugleich ein Beitrag zu Inhalt und Funktion des Universalitätsprinzips bei der Verfolgung von Völkerrechtsverbrechen. Berlin: BWV, Berliner Wiss.-Verl., 2005.

Alison Des Forges. Kein Zeuge darf überleben - Der Genozid in Ruanda. Hamburg: Hamburg Ed., 2003.

Leonhard Harding (Hg.). Ruanda - Der Weg zum Völkermord - Vorgeschichte, Verlauf, Deutung. Hamburg: Lit, 1998.

Ulrich Zwiener (Hg.). Bürgerkrieg und Vertreibung - Existentielle Herausforderungen. Jena: Collegium Europaeum Jenense, 2000.
remarks:
Homepage: http://www.shootingdogsfilm.blogspot.com/

The title was chosen because UN Peacekeepers shot dogs that fed on the dead bodies of the genocide victims.

Based on a true story.
availability:
VHS, DVD