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I'll Enter Heaven Dancing
2016 film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I'll Enter Heaven Dancing (original French title: J'entrerai au ciel en dansant) is a 2016 documentary film that gives account of how the Rwandan genocide ended the life of a Rwandan couple and most of their children.
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Synopsis
The film showed the life of Cyprien and Daphrose Rugamba from the difficult years of marriage until they were killed, together with 6 of their 10 children at their home in Kigali on the first day of the genocide.[1][2][3]
Production
The film is written and directed by François Lespés, and narrated one of the couple's surviving sons, the playwright, stage director, dancer, and actor Dorcy Rugamba.[4][5][6] The film was produced by Francophone European Catholic television network KTO and Hubert de Torcy of SAJE.[6]
The title originates from Cyprien's answer to the soldiers who asked, after rounding his family up before massacring them in their home, if he was a Christian. Cyprien replied with the verse of one of his own songs: "J'entrerai au ciel en dansant!" ("Yes... and I will enter heaven dancing!").[7]
The Catholic Church opened their process for beatification of the couple in September 2015.[8][9]
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Release
The film was released on 26 December 2016.[4]
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