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Rwanda: Beyond the Deadly Pit (2010)

Name: Rwanda: Beyond the Deadly Pit
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011-03-04T17:42:30+01:00
Cast: Gilbert Ndahayo, Celine Murengezi, Ki-moon Ban

Documentary | 96 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 96 minuten

Country: Rwanda / United States

Directed by: Gilbert Ndahayo

Stars: Gilbert Ndahayo, Celine Murengezi, Ki-moon Ban

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Rwanda: Beyond the Deadly Pit plot

Can someone who lost his family through genocide ever forget such a trauma? Probably not. Forgive the perpetrators? Rwandan filmmaker Gilbert Ndahyo does his best. He lost his parents in 1994, when about two hundred villagers were brutally murdered by Hutus. Ndahayo survived the massacre and later filmed, partly in cinéma vérité, the offending spot in the village where the mass grave is now being cleared. The dead are eventually given a dignified burial. The painful past bubbles up again, but one also begins to process the collective trauma. During public interrogations, relatives ask the perpetrators questions. This includes a deeply emotional Ndahyo, who is filmed himself on this occasion. He asks the murderer of his father, once a close acquaintance of the family, how his father died and how the perpetrator proceeded.