Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.














22nd December 2004
21 years ago
2 hours 2 minutes
Finishes at 2:12pm
$17,500,000 ($24,732,750 today)
Revenue $38,000,000






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