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Dominican Rep. Shooting Dogs (Beyond the Gates)
- Original title
- Shooting Dogs (Beyond the Gates)
- Year
- 2005
- Running time
- 115 min.
- Country
United Kingdom- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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John Hurt
Hugh Dancy- Dominique Horwitz
Clare-Hope Ashitey
Louis Mahoney
Nicola Walker
Steve Toussaint
David Gyasi- Victor Power
- Jack Pierce
- Susan Nalwoga
- Musa Kasonka Jr.
- Kizito Ssentamu Kayiira
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production United Kingdom-Germany;
- Genre
- Drama | 1990s. Africa. Based on a true story
- Synopsis
- JOE CONNOR (Hugh Dancy), charismatic and idealistic, is a young man taking a year out. While his friends are backpacking around India or lying on a beach in Thailand, Joe has chosen a "real" experience - teaching in a Rwandan school. He is looking forward to stunning his mates with tales of adventure and life at the sharp end. His enthusiasm for Africa makes him popular with the pupils. To Francois, the school groundsman, Joe is a real friend.
The school is headed by Father CHRISTOPHER (John Hurt) an English Roman Catholic priest. Christopher has spent nearly all his working life in Africa. The cycles of violence that he has witnessed over the years, throughout the continent, have made the struggle to keep his faith alive increasingly hard. Now he is wearier than ever, fearing for Rwanda as it sinks deeper and deeper into a mire of ethnic hatred and political corruption.
Every evening Joe is on the running track coaching MARIE (Claire-Hope Ashitey), a young Tutsi girl. She is an exceptional talent and Joe sees her as a shining example of a brighter future. But in the Rwanda of April 1994 ethnic tension between Tutsis and Hutus erupts into genocide. Joe's world is turned upside down.- Rankings Position
- Awards
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2005: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Outstanding Debut by a Briths Writer, Director or Producer2006: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): Nominated for Best Director
- Critics' reviews
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"Though less reassuring and not as dramatically coherent as Hotel Rwanda, it still packs a hard punch."
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"A gripping fictionalized account of a 1994 incident in Rwanda that became a shocking emblem of the Rwandan Hutus' mass slaughter of the Tutsis."
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"Tense and gut-wrenching, Beyond the Gates is a horrifying story told with grace and compassion."
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The greatest failure of the film is its inability to enter into the lives of the Rwandans, Tutsi and Hutu alike.
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"Director Michael Caton-Jones does a great job and John Hurt just absolutely carries the day as the moral center of the story."
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"Convincingly revisits the horror of 1994's civil war in Rwanda."
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"Not a definitive cinematic statement on the Rwandan genocide but certainly a far preferable dramatic treatment of the atrocity than Hotel Rwanda."
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