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Beyond The Gates

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 sch...

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Corporate Author: Adirondack Pictures., BBC Films., UK Film Council., Invicta Capital., Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
Other Authors: Belton, David. (Producer, Screenwriter), Cross, Pippa. (Producer), Meurer, Jens. (Producer), Alwyn, Richard. (Screenwriter), Wolstencroft, David. (Screenwriter), Caton-Jones, Michael. (Director), Hurt, John, 1940-2017 (Actor), Dancy, Hugh, 1975- (Actor), Horwitz, Dominique. (Actor), Ashitey, Clare-Hope, 1987- (Actor)
Format: Videos DVD
Language: English
Published: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2007]
Edition: Widescreen ed.
Subjects:
Hutu (African people) > Rwanda > Drama.
Tutsi (African people) > Rwanda > Drama.
Genocide > Rwanda > Drama.
Political refugees > Rwanda > Drama.
Massacres > Rwanda > Drama.
Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994 > Drama.
Rwanda > Drama.
War films
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.
Item Description: 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.
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, dual-layer, NTSC.
Audience: MPAA rating: R; for strong violence, disturbing images, and language.
Awards: Heartland Film Festival, 2006: Grand Prize for Dramatic Feature.
Production Credits: Director of photography, Ivan Strasburg ; editor, Christian Lonk ; music, Dario Marianelli ; costume designer, Dinah Collin ; production designer, Bertram Strauss.

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