The 2004 war history film, co-produced by the United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada, and the United States, is based on a true story and tells the story of hotel manager Paul Lus Shabbagina saving 1268 refugees in a race vendetta, directed by Terry George, starring Don Chandel, Sophie O'Connedo, Jacqueline Phoenix, and Nick Nolt.
In 1962, rwanda declared its independence, and the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups were full of contradictions, hatred, and consistent conflicts and wars.
In 1994, the Hutu President of Rwanda, the President of Burundi, met and planned to sign a peace agreement. The male protagonist Paul is an international hotel manager, he is sleek, treats people and things with ease, maintains relations with domestic and foreign warlords and politicians, and has a wife and three children who love him, which can be described as happy and happy.
One day, Paul drove to buy beer and other supplies, the other boss invited him to participate in the Hutus parade, and also saw a large number of machetes they entered, and relied on the turban given by the boss on the way back to evade the parade.
Returning home at night, found that the Hutu militia was arresting Tutsi neighbors, the brother-in-law also told Paul that he got the news that it was best to leave Rwanda as soon as possible, when the president met, coupled with the world media attention, Paul did not think so, but that night on the way back to see the house was burned, the militia jumped around, returned home to find that the house was full of Tutsi neighbors, can only say that his wife is too kind, want to let the husband help to protect them,
The next day, it was learned on the radio that the president who had signed the peace agreement had returned from a plane and had been shot down, so the Hutus agitated the tribesmen to take action to clean up the Tutsi.
Paul took his family and neighbors to the Foreign Affairs Hotel to open a safe for the officers, and the road was littered with Tutsi corpses, and Hutu radicals with machetes and guns were languishing the streets. Paul rescued his wife and children from the militia for ten thousand francs per man, and then took money from the hotel to save the Tutsi neighbors, and then arranged to stay in the hotel directly.
The foreign reporter tourists were trapped in the hotel, but the boss ran away first, and gave the mess to Paul, and Mrs. Archer of the Red Cross pulled a cart of Tutsi children to Paul to help take care of and protect, after all, there were peacekeeping troops, and Paul asked her to find her brother-in-law's family.
Paul called the chairman of the hotel's board of directors, the president of the Belgian Aviation Department, to ask for the hotel's management rights, and persuaded the staff to work normally and stabilize the hotel order. I also learned from the video taken by the reporter that there was a genocide happening outside at this time, and everyone was worried.
Hutu militia soon surrounded the city and began sweeping on a larger scale, calling the Hutu traitors who were Tutsi and protecting them as cockroaches, and to slaughter them, more and more refugees flocked to the hotel.
The French armed forces came to pick up the men, but only let the whites evacuate, and Paul realized that the foreigners had always paid attention only to their own people, and although they had a good relationship with them, no one was helping him at the moment. The godfather also got in the car and left, leaving behind the abandoned hotel and local refugees who had no white shelter.
Soon, the Hutu militia rushed into the hotel to drive out everyone, Paul hurriedly contacted the militia general who had a good relationship before, and after no success, he called the president to explain the situation and say goodbye, and the president contacted the French president's office to solve the crisis, but there would be no next time, because Rwanda did not have their interests.
Paul summoned everyone to contact the foreign dignitaries and dignitaries they knew for help, and destroyed the hotel list records and house numbers to prevent the other party from coming to the door again.
Paul saw the militia general, used him to teach the disobedient and rebellious Hutus men, and took him out to continue to buy supplies, the boss reminded Paul to hand over the Tutsis and let him walk along the river, only to find the corpses scattered across the field, Paul had a nervous breakdown and cried, but he had to suppress his emotions because he still needed to protect the rest.
The colonel of the peacekeeping force brought good news, the troops came back to take the listed people to the safe camp, paul's family was among them, he put his wife and children in the car, or determined to stay, his conscience made it impossible for him to abandon the rest. As a result, the employee informed that the car was hijacked on the road and the militia general came forward for the sake of profit to let the car return.
The Tutsi rebels joined forces with Congolese forces to fight the Hutu, and the colonel asked them to hold out for two days waiting for rescue. Paul bribed the militia general with gold jewelry and wine from the safe of the foreign affairs hotel to ask him to protect the hotel, and threatened not to testify against him after the war to force him to lead troops to drive out the militia.
Finally survived for two days, waited until the rebels attacked, got into the car to the safety zone, arrived at the safe zone and met Mrs. Archer to find the brother-in-law's child, and finally reunited after suffering.
Paul later moved to Belgium, where the Tutsi chieftain was sentenced to life in prison, killing a million people and saving 1,268 lives.
There are many suffering people in this world, their fate is closely linked to all people, human beings do not exist on the earth in isolation, we have a responsibility to help each other, and if we do not realize this, then the end of humanity is reached.