Epic Struggles
di David Denby The New Yorker
Florian Gallenberger’s “John Rabe,” an award-winner in Germany, is not a great film, but it tells an affecting story of the Second World War, and one virtually unknown in America. Gallenberger’s hero, John Rabe (Ulrich Tukur), was a German businessman and Nazi Party member who ran the Siemens plant in Nanking, China. In December, 1937, as the Imperial Japanese Army approached the city, Rabe, trading on his party membership and on the German-Japanese alliance, and aided by a few other foreigners, including the American doctor Robert Wilson (Steve Buscemi), set up, with the Imperial Army’s grudging permission, a three-and-a-half-square-mile safety zone within the city. [...]
di David Denby, articolo completo (2117 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New Yorker 31 maggio 2010
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