John Rabe Comments

  • Camylle 2023-09-11 15:38:56

    I'm very moved, but I'm also thinking about why the people at that time didn't...

  • Blake 2023-08-16 04:58:35

    It's better than China's. I hope China can one day not expect foreigners to save...

  • Verona 2023-08-07 07:17:40

    how to say. . . Involving the different positions of different countries, I don't know whether it is objective or...

  • Alexanne 2023-07-20 15:31:05

    Three and a half. Sure enough, as I expected, the fatal mistake that Nanjing Nanjing made was not made in this movie. This is a very dramatic melodrama. Don't equate it with realist films or documentaries. It is this purity that makes it higher than the four dissimilarities in Nanjing. This film is also more touching than Nanjing, a little fanciful, the first half is obviously better than the second half, Zhang Jingchu's plot is a...

  • Greyson 2023-07-19 15:37:51

    Samsung to Steve...

  • Bailey 2023-07-17 03:12:33

    There are many angles to reproduce the Nanjing Massacre. There is a director from a victim country who chooses the perspective of the...

  • Bailey 2023-07-15 14:03:12

    I read Nanjing Nanjing and Rabe's diary at the same time, and I have to say that the latter is much better. Nanjing Nanjing is a running account with no storyline and only bloody...

  • Norberto 2023-07-13 11:48:59

    After watching "Nanjing! Nanjing! After reading "Rabe Diary", I have a trace of regret, and I always feel that there is something wrong; I don't feel anything special about "The Diary of Rabe". There are not many depictions of the cruelty of war, and many are even obtained from the mouths of the characters, which cannot bring out the protagonist. What a respectable thing to do in the context of that era. The director is not a storyteller. Although the clues of the story are very clear, the...

  • Tyrel 2023-07-09 22:01:11

    Maybe it's a matter of perspective, so I feel that the director is doing this with an attitude of staying out of the way, and the Nanjing Massacre is just a background, but I can't watch the film with an attitude of being out of the way. Maybe he wanted to express too much, so it seemed too bland in...

  • Ashley 2023-07-06 06:49:01

    I have to admit that foreigners understand the Nanjing Massacre much better than we do. In addition to hating the atrocities of the Japanese fascists, we should also remember the Chinese compatriots who died tragically, those foreign friends who showed humanitarian spirit. The compassion and justice shown by Dr. Wilson and Ms. Dupree in the film is more precious than Mr. Rabe. Also pay tribute to the Japanese actors who participated in the...

Extended Reading
  • Andrew 2022-04-21 09:03:23

    We can't ask too much from a foreign film cum biopic

    Why don't Chinese people feel grateful for Rabe's love and sympathy from international friends in the first place? After all, "Rabe Diary" in a sense represents the emotions of international friends and the voice of the international community (in name, it was co-produced by China and Germany, but...

  • Sedrick 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    German hero

    In the war of Japanese aggression against China, what John Rabe did can indeed be called great, but this film was invested and produced by Germany, and even the director and main actors were German actors. This image is somewhat deified. Although in history, Rabe at that time was not understood...

John Rabe quotes

  • Colonel Nakajima Kesago: He disobeyed the rules by not staying in the car.

    John Rabe: He didn't stay in the car? His head was cut off!

    Colonel Nakajima Kesago: It was an honorable death. A contest between two officers. Very popular in Japan.

    John Rabe: What contest?

    Colonel Nakajima Kesago: Who decapitates the most enemies.

  • John Rabe: To the Führer of the German people. Chancellor Adolf Hitler. My Führer. As a loyal party member and upstanding German. I turn to you in a time of great need. The Japanese Imperial troops conquered the city of Nanking on December 12, 1937. Since then I have witnessed atrocious crimes against civilians. Please help to end this catastrophe and make an appeal to our Japanese allies in the name of humanity. With a German salute.

    [Rabe signs the letter]