Hotel Rwanda (DVD)

What a fantastic array of talented actors with Don Cheadle in the role of hotel manager winning Best Actor hands down.

Set in 1994 in Rwanda it is the TRUE and remarkable story of one man's struggle to maintain a calm and dignified oasis as the Manager of a very up market Belgian Hotel in the midst of one of the most brutal acts of genocide that had largly gone un-noticed by the rest of the world, as the Tutsi and the Hutu tribes fight it out.

In three months alone one million people were brutally wiped out and over one thousand displaced men woman and children eventualy took shelter as refugees in this hotel. If you were a white guest then America and England came to the rescue but if you were black and from somewhere else then you had a lot of phoning around for help to get you home no matter how high up the ladder you were!

and at any moment what was stamped on your passport... could get you murdered.


Where the director got so many fantastic convincing extras from is a mystery, each one an Academy Award Winner in their own right.

Echo's of the brutality heaped upon the Jews by the Germans in the second world war.