Shooting Dogs (2005)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Michael Caton-Jones

Writers:

David Wolstencroft (screenplay)
Richard Alwyn (story) ...
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Release Date:

8 December 2005 (Portugal)

Genre:

Drama | History

Tagline:

1994, 800,000 killed in 100 days. Would you risk your life to make a difference?

Plot:

In April 1994, after the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda is shot down, the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population...

Plot Keywords:

Militia | Priest | Refugee | Teacher | Catholic Priest

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Cast

John Hurt	...	Christopher
Hugh Dancy	...	Joe Connor
Dominique Horwitz	...	Capitaine Charles Delon
Louis Mahoney	...	Sibomana
Nicola Walker	...	Rachel
Steve Toussaint	...	Roland
David Gyasi	...	François
Susan Nalwoga	...	Edda
Victor Power	...	Julius
Jack Pierce	...	Mark
Musa Kasonka Jr.	...	Boniface
Kizito Ssentamu Kayiira	...	Pierre
Clare-Hope Ashitey	...	Marie

Directed by
Michael Caton-Jones

Writing credits
David Wolstencroft		(screenplay)
Richard Alwyn		(story) and
David Belton		(story)

Produced by
Richard Alwyn	....	executive producer
David Belton	....	producer
Ruth Caleb	....	executive producer
Pippa Cross	....	producer
Jens Meurer	....	producer
Joe Oppenheimer	....	development producer
Michael Schmid-Ospach	....	co-producer
Karsten Stöter	....	co-producer
David M. Thompson	....	executive producer
Paul Trijbits	....	executive producer
Andrew Wood	....	line producer

Original Music by
Dario Marianelli

Cinematography by
Ivan Strasburg

Film Editing by
Christian Lonk

Casting by
Anja Dihrberg
Karen Lindsay-Stewart

Production Design by
Bertram Strauß

Art Direction by
Astrid Sieben

Set Decoration by
Dagmar Wessel

Costume Design by
Dinah Collin

Production Management
Jonathan Haren	....	post-production supervisor
Juvens Ntampuhwe	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Mark Goddard	....	first assistant director
Paul Morris	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Thomas Cinamula	....	set dresser
Jean De La Paix Hategikimana	....	assistant property master
Theogene Kabalisa	....	painter
Eric Manirakiza	....	props
Sandra Münchenbach	....	stand-by prop
Eddy Munyabarenzi	....	set dresser
Hassan Munyemana	....	set dresser
Claudine Murenzi	....	assistant art director
Jean De Dieu Nsengimana	....	painter
Steve Ntasi	....	props
Koko Rurinda	....	production buyer
Raoul Rwasamirera	....	props

Sound Department
Anthony Faust	....	adr mixer
Chris Gurney	....	boom operator
Daniel Iribarren	....	dialogue editor
Frank Kruse	....	supervising sound editor
Matthias Lempert	....	sound re-recording mixer
Christoph Oertel	....	foley recordist
Carsten Richter	....	foley artist
Jonathan Rimas	....	assistant adr mixer
Kai Schoormann	....	foley editor
Rosie Straker	....	production sound mixer
Hanse Warns	....	additional crowd & sound effects editor
Hanse Warns	....	supervising foley editor

Visual Effects by
Matthias Albrecht	....	digital film editor

Stunts
Jason White	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Ewan Epton	....	best boy
John Evans	....	second assistant camera: second unit
Miriam Fassbender	....	second assistant camera
Gabriel Hyman	....	assistant camera
Micky Reeves	....	gaffer
Rolf Rosendahl	....	assistant camera
Gordon Segrove	....	first assistant camera: second unit

Casting Department
Abigail Barbier	....	adr voice casting
Sylvie Brocheré	....	casting: France
Louis Elman	....	adr voice casting
Carolyn McLeod	....	casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Himani Dehlvi	....	wardrobe supervisor

Music Department
Mikael Carlsson	....	executive soundtrack producer
Dario Marianelli	....	conductor
Dario Marianelli	....	orchestrator
Maggie Rodford	....	music supervisor
Hilary Skewes	....	musician contractor
Benjamin Wallfisch	....	orchestrator
Alison Wright	....	music supervisor

Transportation Department
Jean Pierre Sagahutu	....	transportation captain

Other crew
Sara Curran	....	legal services
Rachel James	....	post-production accountant
Chris Morgan	....	location manager: UK
Yahaya Muvunyi	....	assistant location manager
Lucy O'Driscoll	....	legal assistant
Pat Rambaut	....	script supervisor
Nick Slepko	....	crowd coordinator
Alysa Sun	....	production assistant
Nicole Volavka	....	assistant to director
Sarah Wheale	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• CrossDay Productions Ltd.
• ARTE
• BBC Films
• Egoli Tossell Film
• Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Invicta Capital
• UK Film Council
• Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Distributors

• Renaissance Films (2005) (USA) (theatrical)
• A-Film Distribution (2006) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Frenetic Films (2006) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Timebandits Films (2006) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Vivarto (2006) (Poland) (all media)
• IFC Films (2007) (USA) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Adirondack Pictures (2007) (USA) (all media)
• Facets Multimedia Distribution (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• NonStop Entertainment (2006) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• A-Film Home Entertainment (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Sandrews (2006) (Sweden) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Audiolink Radio Communications  walkie talkies
• Fatts  post-production script service
• Mayflower Studios  sound post-production
• MovieScore Media  soundtrack
• Tonstudio Hanse Warns  sound post-production

Also Known As:

Beyond the Gates (USA)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, disturbing images and language.

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

UK | Germany

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Brazil:18 | Ireland:15A | Netherlands:16 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Singapore:PG | Finland:K-15 | Portugal:M/12 | USA:R | Germany:12 | USA:Unrated (DVD) | Australia:MA | Argentina:16 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, England, UK

Company:

CrossDay Productions Ltd.

Trivia:

The characters are fictional but the events are not. Parts of the film were shot at Ecole Technique Officielle (ETO), a high school in Kigali, where the actual events took place. The title of the film comes from the fact that UN peacekeepers used to shoot local dogs that fed on the decomposing bodies of the genocide victims.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Throughout the movie, the Belgian Captain wears the insignia of a Sergeant (three white lines).

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2007-03-10)" (2007)

Soundtrack:

Baptism Song

How Many Acts of Genocide Does It Take to Make a Genocide

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, the Catholic priest Christopher (John Hurt) and the idealistic English teacher Joe Connor (Hugh Dancy) lodge two thousand and five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege of the Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they are murdered by the extremist militia.

After the magnificent 1994 "Hotel Rwanda", the world has the chance to see another testimony of the genocide in Rwanda, where eight hundred thousand (800,000) people was killed between April and July of 1994 under the total absence of protection or intervention of the United Nation. This powerful and touching true story was filmed in the real locations with the support of the survivors of the massacre. John Hurt is fantastic in the role of a suffered Catholic priest that dedicated his life to the people of this poor country, and Hugh Dancy is also amazing with an excellent interpretation. There are magnificent lines, but I personally was moved when Joe asks Christopher how much pain can a human being take, when he sees the mother being killed by machete strikes with her baby son by one killer of the militia. The questions about God's role the children ask Father Christopher are also great. The feelings of Rachel about the differences between the situation in Bosnia and in Rwanda are very sincere and the sacrifice of Christopher is something very beautiful in this film. The last question to the UN representative "- How many acts of genocide does it take to make a genocide?" in the procedures, regulations, viewpoint of whatever from UN closes this sad but recommended movie with golden key. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Tiros em Ruanda" ("Shots in Rwanda")