• Director: Roger Spottiswoode
  • Release Year: 2007
  • Production Country: Canada
  • Language: English

Shake Hands With the Devil

Description

Commanding the U.N. forces in Rwanda in order to assure the terms of a peace accord are honored, Canadian General Romeo Dallaire suddenly finds himself in the middle of a planned genocide. Despite his best efforts at brokering peace, the Hutus' killings of the Tutsis continue unabated while his pleas for assistance to the world outside and the U.N. in particular are ignored or shunted aside—leaving General Dallaire and his few hundred troops critically shorthanded as they attempt to save any Tutsis they can from the brutal machetes of the radical Hutus.

Themes

Rwandan Civil War (1990 – 1994), Rwandan Genocide (1994), Hutu, Tutsi, Ethnic tensions, Family relationships, Race relations, War crimes, Massacres, United Nations (UN), Post-colonialism, Nationalism, Literature