SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL: THE JOURNEY OF ROMÉO DALLAIRE
A STORY OF THE HEROISM OF CANADIAN GENERAL ROMÉO DALLAIRE AND THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE
OPENING FRIDAY, JUNE 24th AT
* * * MUSIC BOX THEATRE * * * IN CHICAGO!
AUDIENCE AWARD Winner - 2005 Sundance Film Festival
In 1994, over 800,000 men, women, and children were massacred in the small African country of Rwanda. Canadian General Roméo Dallaire was charged with an impossible task: to head the UN peacekeeping mission with a handful of soldiers ordered not to use force to protect Rwandans from the mass slaughter. Based on Dallaire's best-selling book, the film follows the General's return to the region 10 years later, as he comes to grips with the events that have haunted him. The film, according to American Prospect, is about a man's journey "not to seek forgiveness but to mourn and to fight against forgetting. One man, one witness, to the world's indifference." Directed by Peter Raymont.
Engagement runs JUNE 24th - JUNE 30th ONE WEEK ONLY!
All screenings at Music Box Theatre - 3733 N. Southport Ave., Chicago, IL
For more information on SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL visit:
http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0175.
http://www.musicboxtheatre.com
Canadian Club of Chicago: http://www.canadianclubofchicago.org
