Beyond the gates [videorecording] / Adirondack Pictures presents a BBC Films and UK Film Council production in association with Invicta Capital and Filmstifung NRW ; produced by David Belton, Pippa Cross, Jens Meurer ; story by Richard Alwyn and David Belton ; screenplay by David Wolstencroft ; directed by Michael Caton-Jones.
John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz, Clare-Hope Ashitey. Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Special features: Audio commentary by director Michael Caton-Jones; audio commentaries by writer David Wolstencroft and producer David Belton; the making of Beyond the gates; trailers.
Summary:
In April 1994 the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes and the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, Christopher, a Catholic priest and Joe Connor, an idealistic English teacher give sanctuary to twenty-five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school, which is under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege from the Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they are murdered by the extremist militia.
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