Indeed, Dupuis is even wearing Dallaire's original army nametag and decorations from 1994. Dallaire is collaborating on this project – right down to a line-by-line review of the script – and insisted on giving Dupuis the decorations to add authenticity. He also gave Dupuis something of himself. "I feel a real connection with this man. He opened up to me," Dupuis says during an interview on the set, the first time he has spoken with media since the gruelling shoot began in Rwanda a month ago. "I'm here because of him." ("One Last Dance with the Devil")

"Our film is about a man who was aware genocide was coming and tried to get the U.N. to allow him to do something about it, but . . . instead it turned him down. . . . It is really about the bigger issue of what the U.N. role is in situations like these," he told Reuters at the capital's Amahoro stadium, which sheltered thousands of terrified residents in 1994 as the killers roamed the streets outside.
Spottiswoode said the film was particularly timely given the calls on the United Nations to intervene to end the war in Lebanon, and the ongoing efforts to send a U.N. force to stop rampant murders and rapes in Sudan's troubled Darfur region. The United States has called the Darfur conflict genocide.〔Qtd. by Arthur Asiimwe, ("New Rwanda Genocide Movie Criticizes U.N. Role," ) ''Reuters (AlertNet ): Alerting Humanitarians to Emergencies'' August 9, 2006, accessed August 10, 2006.〕