John Rabe

Name: John Rabe
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Released: May 21, 2010
Duration: 134 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Anne Consigny, Daniel Brühl, Steve Buscemi, Ulrich Tukur

2010

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: May 21, 2010

Starring: Anne Consigny, Daniel Brühl, Steve Buscemi, Ulrich Tukur

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)

Director: Florian Gallenberger

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History, War

Runtime: 134 min

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Movieline Stephanie Zacharek

Gallenberger tells Rabe’s story deftly, establishing essential elements of the man’s personality in subtle shorthand. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Drawn from Rabe's diaries, the film is rich in telling and ironic details. Read full review

Peter Rainer

Thanks to Tukur, what we get here is still something: a stunning portrait of a good man caught in a widening inferno. Read full review

David Denby

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. Read full review

Mark Jenkins

Triumph seems the wrong note for a feature film about mass murder. Yet Gallenberger insists on an old-school historical melodrama, with the darkest of terrors leavened by humor, tenderness and even romance. It's only the terror that rings true. Read full review

Scott Tobias

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. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Proudly matter-of-fact but, sadly, far from gripping. Read full review

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SahibKumarBala

Mar 12, 2019

John Rabe, The Good Nazi of Nanking. . .

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JaneG.

May 22, 2010

An excellent film. Worth the 134 minutes viewing.An important docudrama done with taste and class.

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PHL

Sep 26, 2010

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 forBased 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.… Expand

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mario_leonardo

Jul 30, 2011

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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jeremyp

Jun 8, 2011

The rape of Nanking has been visited quite often of late. This movie attempts to focus one John Rabe, a Nazi 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 JapaneseThe rape of Nanking has been visited quite often of late. This movie attempts to focus one John Rabe, a Nazi 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 Nazi 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 rape, 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; rape 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.… Expand

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