Hotel Rwanda and Paul Rusesabagina
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006This is not a review about the cinema Hotel Rwanda, it is about Paul Rusesabagina (Oskar Schindler of Rwanda) and also about how a cinema can influence and bring changes.
The world needed a Schindler’s List from Steven Speilberg to know about the german industrialist Oskar Schindler and the way he saved as many as 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust. Similarly, Hotel Rwanda is about one hotel assistant manager Paul Rusesabagina, who later became a hero by sheltering approximately 1200 Tutsis and moderate Hutus from being slaughtered by the Interahamwe militia.
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