The feature film “Shake Hands with the Devil,” based on Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire’s award-winning book, is directed by Roger Spottiswoode, and stars the highly-esteemed actor Roy Dupuis as Dallaire. Deborah Kara Unger portrays one of the few journalists who remained in Rwanda after the genocide began. The cast also includes Jean-Hugues Anglade as Bernard Kouchner, a founder of Médecins Sans Frontières. James Gallanders, Michel Mongeau and Owen Lebakeng Sejake play the courageous officers who stood with Dallaire, and Odile Katesi Gakire plays the Rwandan Prime Minister of the Peace Government. A dramatization from Oscar®-winning Producer Michael Donovan and multi-award-winning Producer Laszlo Barna, “Shake Hands with the Devi” was filmed in Rwanda using many of the actual locations described in the book. (Source)

A dramatization of United Nations Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire's eyewitness account of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. (Source)

Director Roger Spottiswoode adapts Roméo Dallaire's harrowing autobiography concerning his experiences as the leader of a 1994 U.N. peacekeeping mission to Rwanda that failed to prevent the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans. Dispatched to Rwanda in 1993 to oversee a fragile cease-fire, charismatic Lieutenant General Romeo Dellaire (Roy Dupuis) finds his mission complicated by lack of funding, too much bureaucracy, and a ramshackle crew assembled from military units from dozens of countries. Everyone seems to have a different agenda, and as the peace agreement between the Tutsi-led rebels and the French-supported Hutu-led government begins to deteriorate, appeasing speeches are undercut by shadowy massacres. When an unknown group shoots down the president's plane, Kigali goes up in flames as part of a clandestine yet long-planned campaign against the Tutsi minority. Hindered by an inadequate mandate, Lieutenant General Dellaire watches helplessly as the Hutu militia gains power and civil war gives way to genocide. - Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide (Source)