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100% Rotten Tomatoes Written by Michele Mitchell Edited by Nick Louvel Initial release 9 October 2015 Screenplay Michele Mitchell | 8.7/10 IMDb 80% Metacritic Cinematography Nick Louvel Production
company Film at Eleven Media Producer Michele Mitchell Production company Film at Eleven Media | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directed by Michele Mitchell
Nick Louvel Release date October 21, 2016 (2016-10-21) (United States) Directors Michele Mitchell, Nick Louvel Cast Pierre-Richard Prosper, Sara Darehshori, Patricia Sellers Similar Movies about genocide, Movies about justice, Documentaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
the uncondemned 2015 official documentary trailer
The Uncondemned is a 2016 documentary film produced by Film at Eleven Media. Co-directed by Michele Mitchell and Nick Louvel, the film examines the first trial that prosecuted rape as a war crime and an act of genocide. Rape was declared a war crime in 1919 but was not tried in court until 1997 during the trial of Jean-Paul Akayesu as a part of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Shot in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Netherlands and the United States, The Uncondemned premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 9, 2015.
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President kagame attends screening of the uncondemned kigali 17 june 2015 speech
Synopsis
The Uncondemned recounts the 1997 trial of Jean-Paul Akayesu for his alleged knowledge of the rapes and other war crimes during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. The film features three women, who were victims of rape and anonymously testified in the trial, as well as American prosecutors Pierre-Richard Prosper and Sara Darehshori recalling their building the case against Akayesu.