Shooting Dogs

Movie Information

In April 1994, after the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda is shot down, the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, the Catholic Priest Christopher (Sir John Hurt) and the idealistic English teacher Joe Connor (Hugh Dancy) lodge two thousand five hundred Rwandans refugees, under the protection of the Belgian U.N. force, and under siege by Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the U.N., they are murdered by the extremist militia.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Director:

Michael Caton-Jones

Writer:

David Wolstencroft, Richard Alwyn, David Belton

Actors:

John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz