2007 · drama · history
Shake Hands with the Devil
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode1h 52m2007
In 1993, Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire was sent by the United Nations to Rwanda as commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). Its mission, to ensure the ceasefire, is underfunded, excessively bureaucratized and made up of military units which come from dozens of countries and which each have a very different program... These are Lt Gen Dallaire's efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.
Our read: Shake Hands with the Devil (2007) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · history entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme drama / history, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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