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May 21, 2010 · John Rabe. Though it strays into predictable melodrama, John Rabe is worth watching for the light it shines on a neglected corner of Chinese history. A German businessman (Ulrich Tukur) opens his ...
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May 20, 2010 · Rabe, a Nazi German industrialist stationed in China, is credited with saving the lives of more than 200,000 Chinese during the infamous 1937 massacre in Nanking (now Nanjing) in the second Sino ...
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“The dam,” Rabe tells his wife, “would’ve been my legacy.” To which we think: Ah, but he’ll have a different legacy. In a stiff ceremony, Rabe receives an award as “a hero to the Chinese people,” which is greeted with catcalls from a drunk American, Dr. Wilson (Steve Buscemi), who thinks little of the Nazi businessman. He mocks him.
Jun 11, 2010 · The film, written and directed by Florian Gallenberger and loosely derived from Rabe's heartbreaking diaries – first published in 1966, 16 years after his death – begins in 1937 when Rabe is ...
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Opens 5/21 at Quad Cinema in NYC and 6/4 at Laemmle Theatres in Los AngelesBased on a true story, John Rabe tells the story of a German businessman who rescu...
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John Rabe was a hero to the Chinese people. He saved 200,000 men, women, and children from certain hardship, probable torture, and likely death. Yet after the war, he was condemned by his country, and lived a life of poverty, slipping into obscurity until his death. There has been too little written about this man.
