Hurt defends genocide movie
31/03/2006 - 14:21:44John Hurt, star of Rwandan genocide film Shooting Dogs, has defended the movie at its UK premiere.
John Hurt, who plays a priest who witnesses the 1994 carnage, said it was "a perfectly considered device" to make white characters central to the plot. He added that the low-budget British production was a "tough shoot".
The film had its world premiere earlier this week in front of an audience of 1,500 Rwandans at a football stadium in the country's capital Kigali. The film features hundreds of Rwandans, including some genocide survivors.
