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Storyline

China stood in flames as a German businessman, far from his homeland, would become a reluctant hero. In 1937, as the Imperial Japanese Army attacked China, with undreamed of brutality against the civilian population of the then capital Nanking, John Rabe takes action. Together with a small group of international business people, doctors and missionaries who remain in the city, he managed, under great personal danger, to set up a safety zone for civilians, in which 250,000 people survived, what would enter the history books as, the "Nanking Massacre".

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Berlin International Film Festival 2009
Berlinale Special

Deutscher Filmpreis (Lolas) 2009