Shake Hands With the Devil is a movie based on Roméo Dallaire’s novel Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, and is about Dallaire’s experience in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide. Dallaire was a part of a peacekeeping force that was in Rwanda and during his time there he had a hard time getting done what he thought needed to get done.
The trailer for the film looks pretty good, I like that there are no huge celebritities in it, sometimes I find that this really allows you to think about the reality of a situation.  And the story sounds simple amazing.
Personally I’m just glad this is getting released finally, it playd at Toronto over 2 years ago.
And a quick note, in Hotel Rwanda the man played by Nick Nolte was meant to be a version of Dallaire--if that gives you some perspective!
CATEGORIES: Culture, Human Rights, Peace
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