John Rabe
History Needs Extraordinary Heroes
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 7, 2010
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Strand Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Daniel Bruehl, Dagmar Manzel, Steve Buscemi, Kagawa Teruyuki, Ulrich Tukur & Anne Consigny | |
Directed by | Florian Gallenberger | |
Screenwriting by | Florian Gallenberger | |
Composition by | Annette Focks & Laurent Petitgirard | |
Director of Photography: | Jürgen Jürges |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
There are many powerful moments, including a mass beheading, before the film turns into a sappy, Frank Capra-esque affair.
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New York Post
Rating: 4/5 --
An impressive film, with a careful and emotive story... [Full review in Spanish]
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Rincón de cine
Rating: 4/5 --
Drawn from Rabe's diaries, the film is rich in telling and ironic details.
Los Angeles Times
Given the subject matter of "John Rabe" I expected a bit more than a typical Milos Forman-esque preaching biopic.
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ScreenAnarchy
Rating: B- --
Despite a reliance on docu-drama contrivances, a reasonably intelligent, impressively mounted account of a little-known act of twentieth-century heroism.
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One Guy's Opinion
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.
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New Yorker
3 stars out of 5 -- Boasting impressive production values, engaging storytelling and a standout lead performance by German star Ulrich Tukur...
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Product Description:
Oscar-winning 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. Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl, Dagmar Manzel, and Steve Buscemi star.
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- UPC: 712267291922
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