La bei ri ji
Directed by:
Florian GallenbergerScreenplay:
Florian GallenbergerCinematography:
Jürgen JürgesCast:
Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl, Steve Buscemi, Anne Consigny, Dagmar Manzel, Jingchu Zhang, Gottfried John, Teruyuki Kagawa, Akira Emoto (more)Plots(1)
Director Florian Gallenberger explores the crucial role that foreigners played in helping countless Chinese escape a fate worse than death in this period docudrama concerning the 1937 invasion of Nanking by the ruthless Japanese Imperial Army. Casually known by historians as the "Rape of Nanking," the relentless assault on the then-Chinese capitol found countless men, women, and children slaughtered with a ferocity that shocked the entire world. Yet, despite the violence that surrounded them, some people refused to sit by silently as the innocents perished. One of those people was German engineer and Nazi party member John Rabe, who earned the nickname "The Schindler of China" for constructing a vast safety zone in which nearly a quarter of a million civilians sought sanctuary. (official distributor synopsis)
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National Socialist John Rabe is like the humanist counterpart to John Rambo. Above all, he is a man who should not be forgotten. And if nothing else, where else will you see Chinese people being rescued under and unfurling of a giant Nazi flag?
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