100 Days

100 Days (2001)

The film centers on a pair of young lovers; Bapiste is more than ready to have sex with his girlfriend Josette, but she refuses, arguing that when they are married they can have all the sex they would like. Meanwhile, powerful Hutu leaders have had enough of Tutsi rebels and call on all Hutus to kill their Tutsi neighbors. As chaos breaks out, the Tutsis flee and the lovers are separated. Josette and her family find solace in a Catholic church run by a sadistic priest. The Catholic Church, the state, and the French army look the other way as bloodshed ensues. Josette is taken as a "wife" by the priest and repeatedly raped. When the Belgian army sent in to protect the church is called away on an emergency, the Hutus attack and massacre hundreds of women and children. Josette miraculously survives, but she is only a husk of the woman that she was. As the Tutsis regroup, they exact terrible revenge.

Date of release
2001-09-26
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama
Director
Nick Hughes

Casting

Interesting facts

100 Days is a 2001 British-Rwandan drama film directed by Nick Hughes and produced by Hughes and Rwanda filmmaker Eric Kabera. It is about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Production

The film was the first feature film made about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. It employed no professional actors; rather the filmmakers used actual Tutsi and Hutu survivors to act out the script, and was shot on location at the actual scenes where acts of genocide occurred.

The title of the film is a direct reference to the length of time that passed from the beginning of the genocide on 6 April until it ended in mid-July 1994.

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