Hotel Rwanda

The film begins with a black screen, where you only hear a radio voice. To quote the voice: "When people ask, dear listeners, why I hate all the Tutsis, I say "read our history. " Tutsi were cooperating with the Belgian colonists. They stole our Hutu land, they whipped us. Now, they have come back, theese Tutsi rebels. They are cockroaches, they are murderers. Rwanda is our Hutu land. We are the majority. They are a minority of traitors and invaders. We will ______. We will wipe out the RPF rebels. This is the RTLM, the Hutu-power radio. Stay alert. Watch your neighbors. "

In the first scene you see the main character, Paul Rusesabagina, who is negotiating in an airport. Even then we can only conclude that much will revolve around him. When he and his driver returns to the city, they see a procession of demonstrators and even then, something terrible could have happened.

Hotels head Paul Rusesabagina and his family live a good life in Rwanda. Paul is the head of a fine Swiss hotels. Although he during the working day must stick to its many contacts various bribes for various services, to make it survive.

Paul, is a kind of brother to the most influential people in Rwanda - both black and white. In all cases, it is what he thinks, until civil war breaks out. Hutu leaders have decided to eradicate the Tutsi population in the country, and suddenly all have significant white and black people and the UN left the country. A genocide is ongoing, and neighbors who have just been good friends was dragged out of their houses at night to be found with cut throat the next day (or never found).

Paul's wife is Tutsi, and her brother's family is suddenly lost. Suddenly, Paul runs a hotel without guests, where nothing works, and lots of desperate Tutsi refugees begin to appear. How will Paul be able to help all the while saving his family?

The city's population continues to flow in to the hotel, and kind-hearted as he is, he tries to take as many as possible in patronage. He even puts twenty abandoned children in a single room. The troops begin to invade the city and finally reaches the hotel. Paul tries to do everything in his power to stop them. He bribes them with money, wine and beer, making calls to the higher powers that manage to keep the troops away, time after time. But for how long is it going to be that easy?

The UN tries to smuggle as many of the city's Tutsi people as possible to a safe camp on the other side of the land border, but the rumor is spred and it goes out over the radio that they are about to cross the next village. Fortunately, all came unharmed back to the ho...