Hotel Rwanda

Camera crew visible in the bus window at the beginning of the movie.

The other hotel where 'Paul Rusesabagina' (qv) keeps a safe, has a sign calling it "Hotel Diplomat".

As Rwanda was fully francophone in 1994, this particular hotel was called and spelled "Hotel des Diplomates".

Final credits call the militias "Interhamwe".

Their real name and spelling is "Interahamwe".

When 'Paul Rusesabagina' (qv) is brought to the Hotel Diplomat (about 25-minutes into the film) to take the keys out of the safe, he also takes a stack of $100 USD bills with a post-1996 design.

During the opening scene in the film, a sign for MTN Mobile can be seen.

MTN is a South African communications company and although it is the main mobile provider in Rwanda now, it was not in 1994.

When 'Paul Rusesabagina' (qv) goes to the Hotel Diplomat to get the scotch for the Rwandan general the bottles of Glenfiddich are rounded off.

The rounded off style of bottles are a newer design, the ones in 1994 would have come to a point.

Colonel Oliver's character refers to his subordinate Lieutenants as "Lew-tenant" pronounced the American way.

As a Canadian, he would have pronounced it as "Lef-tenant".

He does the same for several other words, intonating American-style, rather than Canadian-style.

When 'Paul Rusesabagina' (qv) sends his wife and children away in the UN convoy, 'Tatiana Rusesabagina' (qv) is wearing an orange floral skirt prior to getting in the truck and before the truck pulls away, but after the truck pulls away as she is calming the children her skirt is gray.

When 'Paul Rusesabagina' (qv) is first seen getting supplies for his hotel, at one point we see him with his arm brought up to his head, but when the camera angle switches, his arm is down.

And then the angle switches again, and his arm is up again.

When Colonel Oliver talks about the beginning of the negotiations, a photographer is seen in the front row shooting the speaker with a reflex lens.

This kind of lens can not focus down to less than 3 meters as seen in the film and would be useless anyway because of an excessive magnification.

In the scene where it is raining, it can be seen the sun is shining in the distance in a couple of shots looking away from the hotel.

The reflection off Dube's wet coat also looks like sunshine.

English was not at that time an official language in Rwanda, but the signs at the hotel are in English first with French below.

Also, advertisements and shop names in English can be seen.

In the film, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is called "Congo," when the name should have been "Zaire" as that was the country's name until 1997.

In the last chapter, When 'Tatiana Rusesabagina' (qv) is looking for the pictures of her lost little nieces, we first see the pictures with two question marks under it.

Five seconds later, the picture is blank.

The shoulder rank insignia of the Canadian Army Colonel in charge of the UN contingent is incorrectThe rank badge should include the word "CANADA" at the outside edge of the epaulet.

He is also shown wearing shoulder board insignia which is more typical of a naval officer instead of a senior officer in the Canadian Army.

He should have shoulder-mark insignia that slips over the shoulder straps.

Someone said early in the film that the Hutu-Tutsi distinction was introduced by Belgian colonizers.

In fact, the distinction had existed beforehand (e.

King Kigeli IV of Rwanda was a Tutsi), but the divide had been less marked before Belgian rule.

When 'Paul Rusesabagina' (qv) and 'Tatiana Rusesabagina' (qv) are embracing on the roof, Tatiana wraps her left arm around Paul's back and behind his right shoulder but in the next shot her left arm is pulled in tight against Paul's chest.

The sign on top of the entrance to George Rutaganda's company headquarter reads "Rutagunda", instead of "Rutaganda".

General Bizimungu says of whiskey that the Scottish call it "uisce beatha - the water of life".

In fact "uisce beatha" is Irish Gaelic and the expression is Irish in origin.

HOTEL RWANDAHotel Rwanda is a film that was taken 2004.It tells one of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind which takes place in the country of Rwanda in Africa.

WoW-This movie is great. Compared to the movie Blood Diomonds, this movie doesn't contain lots of violence and shootings.

A fascinating story, and a subject that I'm pleased to have learned slightly more (ie. something) about: the Rwandan civil war and genocide of the mid-nineties, and how it was played down and ignored by the West.

It tells you the events of Rwandan genocide, not many people knows what happened there. I think this movie is a good presentation of the event in an art form instead of documentary.

Before watching this movie I actually invited a former colleague from Sri Lanka - a war torn country for over 4 decades as recent as 2009, as I thought we could discuss the movie afterwards. She said she couldn't watch such movie because it was too cruel.

It's really great film which gives good historical data and information. The actors have portrayed their role very well and we'll fit for the film.

In 1994, in a globalized world concerned with Western affairs, the east-central state of Rwanda disintegrated into a state of neglected turmoil. Within a period of just three months, the nation's Hutu ethnic majority brutally slaughtered 800,000 Tutsi minority members due to deeply-rooted conflicts, resulting from a legacy of the Colonial Era known as "Tyranny of the Map.

Hotel Rwanda (2004) : Brief Review -The best compilation of Cultural hatred, massacre, genocide and Exodus any film can offer. Coming to the list of human genre films where mostly the real heroic events prove that fictional heroicness is always Lower.

Based on the true events of the massacre that took place in Rwanda during its civil war, Hotel Rwanda is a tale of how a simple man went too far & risked his own life to save as many people as he possibly could even when he had the chance to simply walk away unharmed. It's a disturbing, violent film that also shows how the entire world deserted this nation when it needed them most.