2009 · drama · history · war
John Rabe
Directed by Florian Gallenberger2h 14m2009
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Our read: John Rabe (2009) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · history · war entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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