2007 · documentary · drama · history
Nanking
Directed by Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman1h 28m2007
The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Japanese army murdered over 200,000 and raped tens of thousands of Chinese. In the midst of this horror, a small group of Western expatriates banded together to save 250,000. Nanking shows the tremendous impact individuals can make on the course of history.
Our read: Nanking (2007) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded documentary · drama · history entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme documentary / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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- epic-stakes
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