In China-occupied , pre-World War II, industrialist John Rabe gradually becomes concerned for his protected Chinese people after witnessing their persecution by the Japanese military . History needs extraordinary heroes, and John Rabe was an essential man in the events happened pre-WWII , China . Gripping and thought-provoking movie that happens when China is invaded by Japan on the onset of war and finds Japanese army surrounding and butchering people at city of Nanjing (1937) . After 28 years building and managing a vast Siemens plant in Nanking, John Rabe (Ulrich Tukur) is assigned by the new Nazi regime led by Hitler to close it down. Before he can pack, the Japanese army , commanded unofficially by a bloodthirsty imperial uncle , lays siege to the city. Rabe accepts, as prominent representative of Japans' major European ally, to head the Western foreign society's plan to begin and run an international zone, like worked in Shangai. Rabe nevertheless wants to save his workers and their close ones, over 200,000 . In this hard mission Rabe is helped by Valérie Dupres (Anne Consigny) , Dr. Georg Rosen (Daniel Brühl) and Dr. Robert Wilson (Steve Buscemi). However, at the city occurs violations , mutilations and a large number of massacres take place , carried out by the sadistic Japanese . It describes the terrifying Japanese invasion in which the military will stop at nothing to wipe out the Nanjing population and at whatever cost with all kinds of execution means . Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
John Rabe (2009) chronicles the trials and triumph of one man who made a difference and the tribulations of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of his actions. A true-story account of a German businessman , John Rabe nicknamed the German Schlinder , who saved thousands of Japanese people , sacrificing all his personal interests . And including violent and shocking scenes in which prisoners and other unfortunate people are interred in camp prisons , but then they are led to fire squad , scaffold, alive burying , or beheaded , but some of them were saved by John Rabe, about more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38 . Director Florian Gallenberger deglamorizes war showing true horror and ominous , bloody deeds , depicting the hard efforts carried out by John Rabe to save unfortunate people . It's a staggering evocation of the Chinese holocaust in Nanjing , as the atrocities are depicted as a disturbing matter and as an astonishing factor by-product of sheer Japanese evil . There are graphic depiction of the horrible massacres and adding stock footage . Packing some really disagreeable and shocking images , no apt for squeamish . Main and support cast are pretty good . Interpretations are uniformly awesome such as : Ulrich Tukur as John Rabe, Daniel Brühl as Dr. Georg Rosen , Steve Buscemi as Dr. Robert Wilson and Anne Consigny as Valérie Dupres , among others.
The picture is set in 1937 Nanking and based on true events. After Nanking was occupied by the Japanese Army, massive burning , rape, killing and plundering continued for six weeks. Males, females and young, none were spared. The atrocities were even worst thah shown in this film. This was not a War. It was an intentional, planned and organized massacre. During the Nanking massacre... 43.123 bodies collected by the Buddhist Society, 22.683 collected by the Red Cross, 112.267 collected by Chun Shan Society, 7.000 collected by Tung Shan Society, 28.000 collected by Shen Chang and others, 7.000 bodies collected by Ruy Fang and others, 3000 bodies collected by Kao Guan and others, 90.000 bodies handled by the Japanese. According to the verdict of the war crimes tribunal in 1947 the Japanese Army was judged to have raped over 20000 women and killed 300.000 Chinese during the Nanking Massacre. One-third of the city was destroyed. Property was plundered at unestimated losses. No family was spared. Main responsible officers were judged. Matsui Iwane was sentenced by the Far East International War Crimes on Nov 12, 1947 and subsequently hanged. Tani Hisao sentenced by The Chinese War Tribunal in 1947 and executed. Mukai Tosjiaki, Noda Iwa, Tanaka Gunkichi sentenced by the Chinese War Tribunal and executed in 1948 . Nakajima Kyogo died of natural causes in 1945.
John Rabe (2009) chronicles the trials and triumph of one man who made a difference and the tribulations of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of his actions. A true-story account of a German businessman , John Rabe nicknamed the German Schlinder , who saved thousands of Japanese people , sacrificing all his personal interests . And including violent and shocking scenes in which prisoners and other unfortunate people are interred in camp prisons , but then they are led to fire squad , scaffold, alive burying , or beheaded , but some of them were saved by John Rabe, about more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38 . Director Florian Gallenberger deglamorizes war showing true horror and ominous , bloody deeds , depicting the hard efforts carried out by John Rabe to save unfortunate people . It's a staggering evocation of the Chinese holocaust in Nanjing , as the atrocities are depicted as a disturbing matter and as an astonishing factor by-product of sheer Japanese evil . There are graphic depiction of the horrible massacres and adding stock footage . Packing some really disagreeable and shocking images , no apt for squeamish . Main and support cast are pretty good . Interpretations are uniformly awesome such as : Ulrich Tukur as John Rabe, Daniel Brühl as Dr. Georg Rosen , Steve Buscemi as Dr. Robert Wilson and Anne Consigny as Valérie Dupres , among others.
The picture is set in 1937 Nanking and based on true events. After Nanking was occupied by the Japanese Army, massive burning , rape, killing and plundering continued for six weeks. Males, females and young, none were spared. The atrocities were even worst thah shown in this film. This was not a War. It was an intentional, planned and organized massacre. During the Nanking massacre... 43.123 bodies collected by the Buddhist Society, 22.683 collected by the Red Cross, 112.267 collected by Chun Shan Society, 7.000 collected by Tung Shan Society, 28.000 collected by Shen Chang and others, 7.000 bodies collected by Ruy Fang and others, 3000 bodies collected by Kao Guan and others, 90.000 bodies handled by the Japanese. According to the verdict of the war crimes tribunal in 1947 the Japanese Army was judged to have raped over 20000 women and killed 300.000 Chinese during the Nanking Massacre. One-third of the city was destroyed. Property was plundered at unestimated losses. No family was spared. Main responsible officers were judged. Matsui Iwane was sentenced by the Far East International War Crimes on Nov 12, 1947 and subsequently hanged. Tani Hisao sentenced by The Chinese War Tribunal in 1947 and executed. Mukai Tosjiaki, Noda Iwa, Tanaka Gunkichi sentenced by the Chinese War Tribunal and executed in 1948 . Nakajima Kyogo died of natural causes in 1945.