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John Rabe
Directed by
Florian Gallenberger
NC-17
2009
2h 14m
Biography
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Drama
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7.2
75%
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A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
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Cast of John Rabe
Ulrich Tukur
John Rabe
Dagmar Manzel
Dora Rabe
Steve Buscemi
Dr. Robert Wilson
Daniel Brühl
Dr. Rosen
Zhang Jingchu
Langshu
Teruyuki Kagawa
Prince Asaka Yasuhiko
Anne Consigny
Valérie Duprès
Gottfried John
Dr. Oskar Trautmann
Mathias Herrmann
Werner Fließ
Tetta Sugimoto
Nakajima Kesago
Akira Emoto
Matsui Iwane
Arata Iura
Major Ose
Shaun Lawton
Rev. John Magee
Christian Rodska
Dr. Lewis Smythe
Fang Yu
Hsianglin Han
Christoph Hagen Dittmann
Christian Kröger
Hans-Eckart Eckhardt
Bernd Franz
Togo Igawa
Fukuda Tokuyasu
Hans-Joachim Heist
Hans Scheel
Dong Fu Lin
Chiang Kai-Shek
John Rabe Ratings & Reviews
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It is a tale of a true hero, even if in its minor details it's less than entirely true. For a movie with ambitions as big as "John Rabe," that doesn't just make it good. That makes it epic.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Drawn from Rabe's diaries, the film is rich in telling and ironic details.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Thanks to Tukur, what we get here is still something: a stunning portrait of a good man caught in a widening inferno.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
There are many powerful moments, including a mass beheading, before the film turns into a sappy, Frank Capra-esque affair.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Reduced to obscurity after the war, Rabe deserves to be remembered for his role in shielding hundreds of thousands in a "safety zone" on company grounds. But the film will help little in securing his legacy.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Despite its gruesome scenes of hundreds of Chinese prisoners of war being lined up and executed and its ostentatious shots of severed heads, the movie is less than indelible.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
It's worth seeing this feature about the heroic figure of John Rabe, even though the movie leaves much to be desired dramatically.
Rincón de cine
Laura Hiros
An impressive film, with a careful and emotive story... [Full review in Spanish]
Dallas Morning News
Cary Darling
An effectively epic and sometimes moving rendering of a momentous event that easily could have remained a historical footnote.
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Burl Burlingame
A serious, large-budget treatment of Rabe's exploits and a moving, terrific film about trying to maintain one's decency amidst horrors.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
In Gallenberger's film, the Chinese are allowed onscreen as victims only.
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
Gallenberger has an astute visual sense, and he's good at transmitting lots of information with a single image.
The New Yorker
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.
Village Voice
Eric Hynes
Cello-scored pantomimes of resilience and grief can make us feel, but it's not always evident who or what that serves.
Variety
Derek Elley
Despite the emotive subject matter, pic is often too sluggish dramatically, and never knits together its stock Western characters into a satisfying whole.
Moving Pictures Magazine
Annlee Ellingson
Deftly incorporated into the narrative is archival footage from the Nanking Massacre -- a stark reminder of the horrifying true events on which the film is based.
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
Despite a reliance on docu-drama contrivances, a reasonably intelligent, impressively mounted account of a little-known act of twentieth-century heroism.
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
One of the few films so far this year that deserves to be called an epic. Great acting and superb sets and cinematography make this a great success.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
...rather stodgy but still affecting historical drama...
What Would Toto Watch?
Christian Toto
John Rabe preserves history while painting a portrait of a most complicated hero.
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