Movie2006·GB, DE·1h 55min

Shooting Dogs

Name: Shooting Dogs
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2006-03-08T00:00:00Z
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 7.49
Cast: John Hurt, Michael Caton-Jones, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz, Nicola Walker

What would you risk to make a difference?

Drama History

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Premiere

Mar2006

Studios

ARTE BBC Film CrossDay Productions Egoli Tossell Film Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen Invicta Capital UK Film Council ZDF

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Synopsis

Shooting Dogs (2006) is a British-German historical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Kigali, April 1994. A young English volunteer teacher named Joe finds himself inside the Ecole Technique Officielle college compound as thousands of Tutsi civilians flood the gates seeking cover near a UN checkpoint.

John Hurt plays Father Christopher, a Catholic priest who refuses to abandon the refugees even as the situation turns lethal. Hugh Dancy is Joe, still learning what ordinary people can do to each other. Over the hundred days that followed that April, somewhere between six hundred thousand and eight hundred thousand people were killed. The film keeps that number human.

Directed by Michael Caton-Jones, the production filmed on location in Rwanda and included survivors among the cast. A BBC Films co-production, the film refuses the detachment of a history lesson. Watch Shooting Dogs (2006) online on iFILM.

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