Joe Connor has taken a year out. He has chosen to teach at a Rwandan school,
while his friends are travelling in India or enjoying the sun in Thailand.
Joe is a real friend To Francois, the school groundsman, and is also popular with the pupils.
Father Christopher, a Catholic priest, is the headmaster of the school.
He has spent a great deal of his working life in Africa, and has witnessed lots of violence
over the years. April 1994 he is wearier than ever, fearing for Rwanda, because ethnic tension between Hutus and Tutsis
is about to erupt into genocide.
The school becomes a refuge for Tutsis and whites. Capitaine Delon, the leader of the Belgian UN soldiers, has
to monitor the fragile peace accord, but the refugees wonder if the UN can protect them from the Hutu militias who
start to surround the school. The European refugees are evacuated by French troops, and their
worst fears are realised when the UN troops are ordered to pull out and abandon the Rwandans.
This War-Drama was released on March 9th, 2007, filmed in Rwanda,
directed by Michael Caton-Jones and stars
John Hurt, Jack Pierce, Hugh Dancy, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Nicola Walker.
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