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Beyond the gates [videorecording] / Adirondack Pictures presents a BBC Films and UK Film Council production in association with Invicta Capital and Filmstifung NRW ; produced by David Belton, Pippa Cross, Jens Meurer ; story by Richard Alwyn and David Belton ; screenplay by David Wolstencroft ; directed by Michael Caton-Jones.

Contributor(s): Belton, David [pro, aus] | Cross, Pippa [pro] | Meurer, Jens [pro] | Alwyn, Richard [aus] | Wolstencroft, David [aus] | Caton-Jones, Michael [drt] | Hurt, John, 1940-2017 [act] | Dancy, Hugh, 1975- [act] | Horwitz, Dominique [act] | Ashitey, Clare-Hope, 1987- [act] | Strasburg, Ivan [cng] | Marianelli, Dario [cmp] | Adirondack Pictures (Firm) | BBC Films | UK Film Council | Invicta Capital | Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH | Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Edition: Widescreen edition, [R-rated version]Description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: two-dimensional moving image Media type: video Carrier type: videodiscSubject(s): Hutu (African people) -- Rwanda -- Drama | Tutsi (African people) -- Rwanda -- Drama | Genocide -- Rwanda -- Drama | Political refugees -- Rwanda -- Drama | Massacres -- Rwanda -- Drama | Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Drama | Rwanda -- Drama
Contents:
Special features: Widescreen version -- Audio commentaries by director, screenwriter and producer -- The making of Beyond the gates featurette -- Ways to get involved: The International Rescue Committee's efforts with war-torn communities and uprooted people -- Language: Egnlish 5.1 Dolby surround -- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French.
Production Credits: Director of photography, Ivan Strasburg ; editor, Christian Lonk ; music, Dario Marianelli ; costume designer, Dinah Collin ; production designer, Bertram Strauss.
Heartland Film Festival, 2006: Grand Prize for Dramatic Feature.Cast: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz, Clare-Hope Ashitey.Summary: 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, Christopher, a Catholic priest and Joe Connor, an idealistic English teacher give sanctuary to twenty-five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school, which is under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege from the Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they are murdered by the extremist militia.
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Media Media John Bulow Campbell Library Media PN1997.2 .B49 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903405518

DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, dual-layer, NTSC.

English dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz, Clare-Hope Ashitey.

Director of photography, Ivan Strasburg ; editor, Christian Lonk ; music, Dario Marianelli ; costume designer, Dinah Collin ; production designer, Bertram Strauss.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2005.

MPAA rating: R; for strong violence, disturbing images, and language.

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, Christopher, a Catholic priest and Joe Connor, an idealistic English teacher give sanctuary to twenty-five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school, which is under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege from the Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they are murdered by the extremist militia.

Special features: Audio commentary by director Michael Caton-Jones; audio commentaries by writer David Wolstencroft and producer David Belton; the making of Beyond the gates; trailers.

Heartland Film Festival, 2006: Grand Prize for Dramatic Feature.

Special features: Widescreen version -- Audio commentaries by director, screenwriter and producer -- The making of Beyond the gates featurette -- Ways to get involved: The International Rescue Committee's efforts with war-torn communities and uprooted people -- Language: Egnlish 5.1 Dolby surround -- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French.

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