General information

Call No.:

350-3-1:7/3

Part of series

HU OSA 350-3-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Africa: Rwanda

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #7 / No. 3

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009720

Original Title

The Rwandan Series: Hand of God, Hand of the Devil

Date of production

1995

Date

1995

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

French, English, Kinyarwanda, French

Duration

9 min.

Notes

Appears onR10(2). Incomplete. For the complete film see FA container #5.

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

Fragments from “Hand of God, Hand of the Devil,” the second volume of the three-part film series on Rwanda. It investigates Rwanda’s colonial past and explores Canada's role in the development of the genocidal ideology that started taking shape in the early 1960s when the country gained its independence and Belgian missionaries fled the country. The film tells the story of Father Claude Simard who was murdered in October 1994 in the Rwandan village of Ruyenzi and Brother François Cardinal (Brothers of Christian Instruction, a lay Catholic order) who was assassinated in Kigali by a six-person commando squad.

Context

Associated Names

Lacourse, Daničle (Director)

Patry, Yvan (Director)

Grana, Sam (Director)

Rekkas, Faria (Investigator)

Alter Ciné, Inc. (Copyright holder)

Alter-Ciné (Producer)

Telefilm Canada (Producer)