Overview
- Summary
- In Apr. 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.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2007]
- Locale
- Rwanda
- Edition
- Widescreen ed
- Notes
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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.
Director of photography, Ivan Strasburg ; editor, Christian Lonk ; music, Dario Marianelli ; costume designer, Dinah Collin ; production designer, Bertram Strauss.
John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz, Clare-Hope Ashitey.
MPAA rating: R; for strong violence, disturbing images, and language.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, dual-layer, NTSC.
English dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Heartland Film Festival, 2006: Grand Prize for Dramatic Feature.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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- This DVD is copy protected.
Keywords & Subjects
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