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Mood:
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- Tragic HeroFighting the SystemHuman SpiritIdealismMoral DilemmaAgainst the OddsGenocidePolitical Unrest more...
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- DramaHistoricalPeriodWar
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Beyond the Gates, 2005
English, French
UK, Germany
Profile of Beyond the Gates
The mood of Beyond the Gates is disturbing, bleak, and tense. The plot centers around genocide, a moral dilemma, and a conspiracy against humanity. It is a drama, period, and war movie. In approach, Beyond the Gates is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, at a school. Beyond the Gates is set in rwanda and Africa. It happens in the 1990s. It is originally a true story.
Summary of Beyond the Gates
In April 1994, after the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda is shot down, the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, the Catholic priest Christopher and the idealistic English teacher Joe Connor lodge two thousand and five hundred Rwandans refugees, under the protection of the Belgian UN force and under siege by Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they are murdered by the extremist militia.
Details
| Language: | English, French |
| Country: | UK, Germany |
| Release date: | 20 October 2006 |
| Runtime: | 115 min |
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as Christopher
as Joe Connor
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Critics Reviews
The Onion (A.V. Club)
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- by: Tasha Robinson
Los Angeles Times
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- by: Kevin Crust
Users Reviews
- 15.January.2012
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- by: alizbazar
- alizbazar rated this movie
9/10Amazing
