TV Guide: Shake Hands With The Devil

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Trailer Addict — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The trailer for Shake Hands With the Devil. Director Roger Spottiswoode brings a very special film realization of the acclaimed best-seller by General Rom o Dallaire to the screen in "Shake Hands with the Devil," the story of a Canadian commander torn between his duty and his conscience when he finds himself eyewitness to hell on Earth. In 1993, the United Nations dispatches Lieutenant-General Rom o Dallaire (Roy Dupuis) to far off Rwanda to oversee a fragile cease-fire. A brilliant, workaholic officer and charismatic commander, Dallaire encounters the shabby reality of a typical UN peacekeeping operation: under-funded, overbureaucratic, and cobbled together from military units from dozens of countries, each with a slightly different agenda. Meanwhile, the peace agreement between the rebels, led by the minority Tutsi ethnic group, and the French-supported government dominated by the Hutu majority group, turns out to rest on shaky ground. When an unknown group shoots down the Rwandan Pr

Video: Shake Hands With the Devil

Apple Trailers — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The feature film Shake Hands with the Devil, based on Lieutenant-General Rom o Dallaire s award-winning book, is directed by Roger Spottiswoode, and stars the highly-esteemed actor Roy Dupuis as Dallaire. Deborah Kara Unger portrays one of the few journalists who remained in Rwanda after the genocide began. The cast also includes Jean-Hugues Anglade as Bernard Kouchner, a founder of M decins Sans Fronti res. James Gallanders, Michel Mongeau and Owen Lebakeng Sejake play the courageous officers who stood with Dallaire, and Odile Katesi Gakire plays the Rwandan Prime Minister of the Peace Government. A dramatization from Oscar -winning Producer Michael Donovan and multi-award-winning Producer Laszlo Barna, Shake Hands with the Devi was filmed in Rwanda using many of the actual locations described in the book.

Video: 'Shake Hands with the Devil' Theatrical Trailer

Yahoo! Movies — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

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