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- 2010
- Strand Releasing
- 2 h 14 m
- 2010
- Strand Releasing
- 2 h 14 m
Summary Based on a true story, John Rabe tells the story of a German businessman who rescued more than 200,000 civilians during the so-called “Nanking Massacre” in China. (Strand Releasing)
Directed By: Florian Gallenberger
Written By: John Rabe, Erwin Wickert, Florian Gallenberger
- 2010
- Strand Releasing
- 2 h 14 m
- 2010
- Strand Releasing
- 2 h 14 m
John Rabe
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7.8
Summary Based on a true story, John Rabe tells the story of a German businessman who rescued more than 200,000 civilians during the so-called “Nanking Massacre” in China. (Strand Releasing)
Directed By: Florian Gallenberger
Written By: John Rabe, Erwin Wickert, Florian Gallenberger
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
57
33% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
67% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
0% Negative
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Drawn from Rabe's diaries, the film is rich in telling and ironic details.
The acting is immaculate; the editing is seamless; the imagery is blunt.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
7.8
88% Positive
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13% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
7.8
88% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
13% Mixed
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0% Negative
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John Rabe, The Good **** of Nanking. . .
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It is a interesting movie, a great history about a good man, who doesn't matters leave his comfortably life in order to save people who don't know. In some parts is a little slow, but have great a impact moments.
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One of the main virtues of John Rabe is to demonstrate that, however much we know about the worst of all wars, it still has little-known corners that can amaze us.
In spite of a subtle performance by Ulrich Tukur in the eponymous role, Gallenberger’s film feels labored and emotionally disengaged, an autumn-hued history lesson that’s as studiously reserved as its steel-spined subject.
It's a remarkable story, and filmmaker Florian Gallenberger does his best to shade his portrait with complications and mitigations. But for a story not often told, John Rabe feels awfully familiar.
Proudly matter-of-fact but, sadly, far from gripping.
Based on a true story, this is a moving and powerful movie. At times difficult to watch such cruelty, it's uplifting to see the humanity that was exhibited by John Rabe during a horrible war. Perhaps it would take Steven Spielberg to comment on it and compare his heroism to Schindler's for the movie to get more attention and wider distribution.
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The **** of Nanking has been visited quite often of late. This movie attempts to focus one John Rabe, a **** businessman in Nanking, but ends up, inevitably in focusing on the small group of westerners who do their heroic best to save as many chinese as possible from the ravenous Japanese army. The atrocities take a back seat to the machinations of the group to be rescuers while surrounded by barbarians. As a **** Rabe manages to use his countries alliance with Japan to keep a safe zone open to 200,000 chinese. An ironic image is of hundreds of them huddled under a vast flag emblazoned with a Swastika, as it signals the Japanese to bomb elsewhere. Inadvertently they are saved by the emblem of a regime that personified the genocide of innocents.
For some reason the other hero in the story Minnie Vautrin, an american missionary responsible for saving 20,000 young women from ****, is presented as a French woman, who risks everyones life in the zone by hiding chinese soldiers, expressly against the charter for the zone. In the end the atrocity of Nanking gets short shrift; **** is mentioned but only as a menace, the dead are mostly soldiers, and the postscript tells us Rabe died a pauper in Germany shortly after the war, unsung. That postscript might make a more fascinating story.
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Production Company
Odeon Fiction,
EOS Entertainment,
Majestic Filmproduktion,
Antena 3 Films,
Bayerischer Banken-Fonds,
Canal+,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF),
FilmFernsehFonds Bayern,
Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA),
France 2 Cinéma,
Huayi Brothers & Taihe Film Investment,
Lunaris Film,
MEDIA Programme of the European Union,
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg,
Pampa Production,
RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana,
Rai Cinema,
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF),
Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
Release Date May 21, 2010
Duration 2 h 14 m
Tagline History needs extraordinary heroes.
Website
http://www.johnrabe.de/
Awards
German Film Awards
• 4 Wins & 7 Nominations
Bavarian Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
German Film Critics Association Awards
• 2 Nominations
