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A Sunday in Kigali

A Sunday in Kigali

Un dimanche à Kigali

Equinoxe Films (2006)
DVD
PG
0012569145429
Drama | Foreign | French-Canadian | Romance
Canada/Quebec | French | Color | 01:59

Spring 1994. Kigali, Rwanda's capital city, deep in the heart of Africa. Bernard Valcourt is a man divided between hope and disillusionment. In Africa to shoot a documentary on the devastation weaked by AIDS, Valcourt watches on as tensions rapidly escalate between Tutsis and Hutus. At the Hôtel Des Milles Collines, home to expatriates, Valcourt falls madly in love with Gentille, a beautiful Rwandan waitress. Though she feels the same way, their romance grows in fits and starts; she is so young and he - he is so white...

In spite of their differences, Gentille and Valcourt throw caution to the wind and marry. And then war breaks out. Amidst the ensuing chaos the lovers are brutelly separated. Valcourt searches desperately for his wife, but because of his status as a foreigner, is forced to leave the country.
Months later.

Rwanda is stained with the blood of close to a million Tutsis but order has been restored. Valcourt returns to Kigali in search of his wife. But with many survivors displaced from their homes and some living in refugee camps across borders, his task is a difficult one. Amidst this chaos, will Valcourt find Gentille? And if he does, will they recapture their love or will the scars of Africa's most brutal war run too deep?

A beautiful love story set against the horror of genocide, A Sunday in Kigali paints, with clarity and compassion, a picture of the horror and the hope that reside in the human heart.


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Luc Picard Bernard Valcourt
Fatou N'Diaye Gentille
Celine Bonnier Élise
Luck Mervil Raphaël
Maka Kotto Manu
Fayolle Jean Victor
Léonce Ngabo Maurice
Jean-Chris Banange Semutakirwa Modeste
Erwin Weche D.J. Rock
Mireille Metellus Agathe
Natasha Muziramakenga Émerita
Guy Thauvette Général Roméo Dallaire
Luc Proulx Père Louis
Eric Kabanda Cyprien
Geneviève Brouillette Madame la Consule
Valentin Utaruhijimana Célestin
Louise Laparé Francine
Johanna Ingabiré Désirée
Aline Muhorakeye Georgina
Jean De La Paix Hategekimana Cousin de Cyprien
Amélie Chérubin-Soulières Mathilde
Vincent Bilodeau Père Cardinal
Alexis Martin Lamarre
Mutsari Jean Jean Damascène
Diane Nyiraparasi Berthe

Edition details

Packaging Snap Case
Nr Discs 1
Screen Ratios Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)
Audio Tracks FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles English | French
Distributor Warner Brothers Home Video
Layers Single side, Single layer
Edition Release Date Jan 30, 2007
Regions 1