John Rabe is a 2009 Sino-German biopictorial film directed by Florian Gallenberger and starring Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl and Steve Buscemi.
It focuses upon the experiences of John Rabe, a German businessman who, while in Shanghai, used his Nazi party membership to construct a Nanking Safety Zone and save over 200,000 Chinese from violent war crimes which were being committed by the invading Imperial Japanese Army (an ally of Nazi Germany at the time) in the 1937 Battle of Nanking. Based upon Rabe’s wartime diaries, shooting for the film commenced in 2007, and it premiered at the 59th Berlin Film Festival on February 7, 2009. The film picked up over 7 Deutscher Filmpreis nominations, including best film, best director (Gallenberger), best actor (Tukur) and best supporting actor (for Buscemi, one of the few times that a Lola nomination has been given to a non-German citizen – Buscemi is American).
Cast
* Ulrich Tukur – John Rabe
* Daniel Brühl – Dr. Georg Rosen
* Steve Buscemi – Dr. Robert Wilson
* Jingchu Zhang – Langshu
* Anne Consigny – Valérie Dupres
* Dagmar Manzel – Dora Rabe
* Gottfried John – Trautmann
* Teruyuki Kagawa – Prince Asaka
* Yu Fang – Han
* Mathias Herrmann – Jochen Fließ
* Akira Emoto – General Matsui
* Christian Rodska – Dr. Lewis Smythe
* Christoph Hagen Dittmann – Christian Kröger
* Togo Igawa – Ambassador Fukuda
* Shaun Lawton – Rev. Maggee
* Arata – Major Ose
* Tetta Sugimoto – Kesago Nakajima
* Hans-Eckart Eckhardt – German Embassy Clerk
* Hans Joachim Heist – Scheel
* Ming Li – Chang
* Yuan Wenkang – Gu
* Philipp Keller – Sailor
Produced by
* Marion Dany – line producer
* Georg Gruber – co-producer
* Benjamin Herrmann – producer
* Mischa Hofmann – producer
* Xiaowan Li – line producer
* Christoph Menardi – co-producer
* Dr. Daniel Mohr – associate producer
* Jan Mojto – producer
* Ling Qiao – associate producer
* Mathias Schwerbrock – executive producer
* Nicolas Traube – co-producer
* Jürgen Tröster – line producer: preparation
* Wang Zhaohui – assistant producer
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