John Rabe

IMDb link: 1124377
IMDb rating: 7.2 (6,982 votes)
Genres: Drama, Biography, War, History
Director: Steve Buscemi, Daniel Bruhl, Florian Gallenberger
Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Anne Consigny and others

Release date: 2 Apr 2009
Release year: 2009
Runtime: 134 minutes
Country: France, China, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium
Keywords: female frontal nudity, japanese occupation, japanese occupation of china, character name as title, two word title, based on real person, expatriate, 1930s, female rear nudity, female full frontal nudity

Plot:

After 28 years building and managing a vast Siemens plant in Nanking, John Rabe is ordered by the new Nazi regime to close it down. Before he can pack, the Japanese army, lead 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 ex-pats society's plan to start and run an international zone, like worked in Shangai. Rabe however wants it to save his workers and their close ones, over 200,000, and sacrifices all his personal interests.

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