Bangkok--1 Aug--OutCome PR
BASED ON TRUE EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF RWANDA SOMETIMES IN APRIL PREMIERES AS HBO’S ORIGINAL MOVIE OF THE MONTH THIS 1 AUGUST 2006 AT 9PM
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
On 6 April 1994, the Rwandan president and Burundian president were killed when the plane they were both traveling in was shot down. Hutu extremists were believed to be behind the attack beginning one of the most heinous genocides in world history in the African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of 100 days, close to one million people were butchered in a terrifying purge by Hutu nationalists against their Tutsi countrymen while the rest of the world stood by.
This harrowing HBO Original Movie focuses on the almost indescribable human atrocities that took place more than a decade ago through the story of two Hutu brothers — a reluctant soldier and a radio personality — whose lives were forever changed by the genocide. Embroiled in the 1994 conflict between the Hutu majority (who had ruled Rwanda since 1959) and the Tutsi minority who had received favored treatment when the country was ruled by Belgium, Augustin Muganza (Idris Elba, The Wire) is a father to three, and married to a Tutsi; while his brother Honor? (Oris Erhuero, Black Mask 2: City of Masks) is a popular public figure espousing Hutu propaganda from a powerful pulpit: Radio RTLM in Rwanda.
SOMETIMES IN APRIL is set in two periods, which unfold concurrently.
In April 1994, after the Hutu Army begins a systematic slaughter of Tutsis and more moderate Hutus, Augustin and a fellow Army officer named Xavier, defying their leadership, attempt to get their wives and children to safety. Separated from his wife Jeanne and their two sons (whom he entrusts to the care of his reluctant brother), Augustin gets caught in a desperate struggle to survive. Barely escaping the purge, he's haunted by questions about what happened to his wife, sons and daughter. And in 2004, looking for closure and hoping to start a new life with his girlfriend Martine, Augustin visits the United Nations Tribunal in Arusha, where Honor? awaits trial for the incendiary role he and other journalists played in the genocide. Through an emotional meeting with Honor?, Augustin learns the details of his family's fate, giving him closure and, perhaps, hope for happiness in the future.
SOMETIMES IN APRIL is the first large-scale docu-drama about the 100 days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide shot in Rwanda, where the actual events transpired.
Written and directed by Raoul Peck (HBO’s Lumumba), SOMETIMES IN APRIL also stars Oscar? nominee Debra Winger (Shadowlands) as Prudence Bushnell, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State who tried everything within her means to end the massacre but could do nothing.
Both an edge-of-the-seat thriller and a powerful reminder of man's incomprehensible capacity for brutality, SOMETIMES IN APRIL is also an epic story of the incredible courage of man in the face of daunting odds, as well as an expos? of the West's inaction to the massacre of nearly a million Rwandans.
The chilling HBO Original Movie, SOMETIMES IN APRIL, premieres as HBO’s Original Movie Of The Month this 1 August 2006 at 9pm on HBO (UBC 12).
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