Fort Saganne vs Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6/10 for Fort Saganne). Hotel Rwanda is the shorter watch at 2h 1m compared with 3h . Fort Saganne is the older of the two (1984 against 2004). Both are drama, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Fort Saganne posterFort Saganne1984 VS Hotel Rwanda posterHotel Rwanda2004
Fort SaganneHotel Rwanda
Audience score★ 6.0/10★ 7.7/10
Year19842004
Length3h 2h 1m
GenresDrama, History, WarDrama, History, War
CountryFrance–
DirectorAlain CorneauTerry George
Main castCatherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Duchaussoy, Sophie Marceau, Philippe NoiretDon Cheadle, Joaquin Phoenix, Cara Seymour, Nick Nolte, David O'Hara

Synopsis

Fort Saganne

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.

Hotel Rwanda

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

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