Shake Hands with the Devil is a Canadian drama feature film starring Roy Dupuis as Roméo Dallaire, which premièred at the Toronto International Film Festival in August 2007. Based on Dallaire's autobiographical book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, the film recounts Dallaire's harrowing personal journey during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and how the United Nations failed to heed Dallaire's urgent pleas for further assistance to halt the massacre. The film received 12 nominations at the 28th Genie Awards and tied with the film Eastern Promises for most... nominations. A co-production of Barna-Alper Productions, of Toronto, and Halifax Film Company, of Nova Scotia, the movie was directed by Roger Spottiswoode and filmed in part on location in Kigali, Rwanda, from mid-June to early August 2006 before returning to Halifax for its "final shoot." A press conference concerning the film, with Dallaire, Dupuis, Spottiswoode, the producers Laszlo Barna and Michael Donovan , as well as Wayne Clarkson of Telefilm Canada, occurred in Montréal on June 2, 2006.
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| Release date: | September 28, 2007 |
| Directed by: | Roger Spottiswoode |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 112 Minutes |
| Producer: | Laszlo Barna, Michael Donovan |
| Editor: | Michel Arcand |
| Music by: | David Hirschfelder |
| Cinematography: | Miroslaw Baszak |
| Screenplay by: | Michael Donovan |
| Estimated budget: | $11,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Shake Hands with the Devil |