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Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)

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User Rating: 8.4/10 (544 votes)

Overview

Director:
Roger Spottiswoode
Writers:
Roméo Dallaire (book)
Michael Donovan (writer)
Release Date:
28 September 2007 (Canada) more
Genre:
History more
Plot:
A film adaptation of the Romeo Dallaire autobiography Shake Hands with the Devil. full summary | full synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers)
Awards:
7 wins & 11 nominations more
User Comments:
Shake hands With and Oscar... more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)
Roy Dupuis ... General Romeo Dallaire
Owen Sejake ... Ghanian General Henry Anyidoho (as Owen Lebakeng Sejake)

James Gallanders ... Major Brent Beardsley
Michel Mongeau ... Luc Marchal
Robert Lalonde ... Général Maurice Baril
John Sibi-Okumu ... Booh-Booh
Akin Omotoso ... Paul Kagame
Tom McCamus ... Phil Lancaster
John Matshikiza ... President Habyarimana
Jean-Hugues Anglade ... Bernard Kouchner
Strini Pillai ... Bangladeshi Commander
Craig Hourqueble ... Willem
Kenneth Khambula ... Major Kamenzi
Patrice Faye ... Colonel Poncet
Chris Thorne ... American Ambassador
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Additional Details

Runtime:
112 min
Country:
Canada
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Canada:18A
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The ribbon bars of Dallaire's medals worn by Roy Dupuis in this film are the actual ones worn by Roméo Dallaire during the time period depicted in this film. They were loaned to Dupuis by Dallaire during for the film's production. more

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23 out of 27 people found the following comment useful:-
Shake hands With and Oscar..., 2 October 2007
10/10
Author: Jamie Bradford from Canada

Rarely do I watch a movie and get physically affected by it. Crash made tears well, Shake Hands with the Devil made me weep. It made me sick with anguish and sorrow. This movie is the most powerful movie I have ever seen. It's hard to soften the subject matter of this movie, the systematic extermination of nearly a million people, the inaction by the world at large, the plight of a broken soul. "Shake Hands with the Devil" succeeds in bring to light the events that occurred in April, 1994 in the small African nation, as seen through the eyes of Gen. Romeo D'Allaire. Throughout the film we see graphic images of the atrocities that occurred in Rwanda, from dismembered corpses to severed arms, legs, and heads. Rotting piles of bodies on the roadsides and men, women, and children being hacked up in the streets. This movie is not a fun time for anybody. This movie isn't fun. It's depressing. Very, very depressing. I think this is a movie that every single person should see. So that, as Romeo says, No one ever forgets April, 1994 in Rwanda. This movie is deserving of a nomination for an Oscar, it is the best Canadian film I have seen since "Bon Cop Bad Cop".

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