电影John Rabe

2009 NR 134 minutes

Florian Gallenberger directs this gripping drama about John Rabe (Ulrich Tukur), a German businessman living in Nanking, China, who in 1937 used his Nazi party affiliation to save some 200,000 Chinese civilians from slaughter at the hands of the Japanese army. As Rabe labors to establish an official safety zone to shelter the innocent, he forms an unlikely friendship with an American doctor (Steve Buscemi). Anne Consigny and Daniel Brühl co-star.

Cast:

Ulrich Tukur, Steve Buscemi, Daniel Brühl, Anne Consigny, Dagmar Manzel, Jingchu Zhang, Teruyuki Kagawa, Mathias Herrmann, Tetta Sugimoto, Akira Emoto

Director:

Florian Gallenberger

一个影评

It's a bit unfair to decry the film's historical inaccuracies then offer only trifling examples, or none at all. Here is what the historical record is quite clear on: John Rabe was elected head of the Nanking Safety Zone -- in large part because of his Nazi party membership and his prominence in the large Nanking community of expatriate businessmen. He, and the safety zone he ran, are credited with saving up to a quarter million civilian lives. Rabe opened the doors of his own properties so that additional hundreds could be saved. His diary is testament to his disgust with the Japanese Army's treatment of Chinese civilians during the Rape of Nanking. But perhaps greater testament is offered his tireless advocacy for the victims, and his very public efforts to bear witness to the attrocities, upon his return to Germany. For this Rabe was arrested and treated with great suspicion by the Nazis. A real personal tragedy given Rabe's overall loyalty to the Nazi party and his tragically mistaken belief that Hitler would intervene on the side of humanitarian decency! His tragedy was compounded after the war, when the allies denied him "De-Nazification" status. He died penniless in 1950. So, this man deserves accolades, and this film is mostly accurate on the details that matter.Rabe ran this special zone, and the zone saved hundreds of thousands of Chinese lives. He was true to that spirit on his return home, and it cost him dearly. The Japanese have never owned up to their treatment of Chinese civilians, or of Allied POWs, during the war they started in Asia. But do enjoy this film without guilt. It is not some whitewashing of the historical events dramatized therein, or of Rabe's role in them. It certainly doesn't shy away from his Nazi affiliation or the character's period-accurate racist attitudes.

感谢大家评说《金陵十三钗》，使我突然很想看这个德国导演2009年拍的电影，就是中文叫‘拉贝日记’的电影吧。我以前看到陆川拍的‘南京，南京’都回避了，不知为什么我老是没有勇气和兴趣看1937年日本人南京屠城的任何电影,心里堵得厉害。
这部电影我也是从昨晚断断续续看到今天，这不是娱乐电影，看得人很难过。有些苦难是人类永恒的伤痛，有些耻辱是全体人类都不应忘记的。

这是个外国人看南京大屠杀和他们眼里的中国人，日本人，各国人在战争和屠杀时候的故事。

电影拍得合情合理。有些地方剪辑的像纪录片一样，更给人一种历史的真实感。比起那些花里胡哨吊人胃口的传说，这个电影通过这个德国人的日记更客观地介绍了当时的事件，和中国人不幸而悲惨的遭遇。我们真的不应该忘记二战期间日本人在中国灭绝人性的野蛮行径。这个电影是德语片英文字幕看起来比较更吃力一些。但非常值得一看。