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Also new this week is John Rabe (Strand), directed by Florian Gallenberger and starring Ulrich Tukur as the Nazi businessman in 1937 China who saved over 200,000 Chinese civilians in the Nanking Massacre perpetrated by the invading Japanese army, plus That Evening Sun (Image) with Hal Holbrook, the Slovenian thriller A Call Girl (Film Movement), and releases of two older British productions: Four in the Morning (VCI) with Dame Judy Dench and Hell is Sold Out (VCI) with Herbert Lom and Richard Attenborough.

As a dramatic feature about a heroic figure, «John Rabe» leaves much to be desired: Despite fascinating material, most significant subject (genocide), the overly long film is rather shapeless, lacking the emotional impact that it could have had.

Set in 1937, the tale centers on businessman John Rabe (well played by the great German actor Ulrich Tukur), who for nearly 30 years has been living with his wife Dora in the capital city of China, Nanking, where he heads the Siemens branch.

I'd like to point out that John Rabe, known in some circles as «Oskar Schindler of China,» for singlehandedly saving many residents, appears as one of the many figures in the superb documentary, «City f Life and Death» (see review).

Directed and written by Florian Gallenberger, «John Rabe» is lavishly mounted, with a strong portrayal of Rabe by Ulrich Tukur, the feudal baron in Michael Haneke ’s

Florian Gallenberger, the German director whose highly praised period drama John Rabe won four Lolas at the German film awards in 2009, will take charge of the cameras and write the screenplay with Torsten Wenzel.

• This article was amended on 30 September 2014 following information received about the bilingual nature of John Rabe and confirmation that Colonia will be in English.

The film will be the film - maker's feature - length fully English - language debut following the German / English John Rabe and 2004's Shadows of Time, which was in Bengali.

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Directed by Florian Gallenberger (John Rabe), Colonia is set in Chile in the 1970s, when General Augusto Pinochet seizes power in a brutal military coup.

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``; John Rabe»; is a serious, large - budget treatment of Rabe's exploits and a moving, terrific film about trying to maintain one's decency amidst horrors.

John Rabe was one of those almost - known heroes of the prewar years.

One of the main virtues of John Rabe is to demonstrate that, however much we know about the worst of all wars, it still has little - known corners that can amaze us.

Critic Consensus: Though it strays into predictable melodrama, John Rabe is worth watching for the light it shines on a neglected corner of Chinese history.

This film is a look at German Industrialist John Rabe who lived and worked in China, and was one of the key players who established a safety zone for the locals during the occupation of China by the ruthless Japanese Imperial Army.

What we get here is the story of John Rabe who was essentially the Oskar Schindler of China.

At the same time I am fascinated by John Rabe who is at first depicted as cold and imperious (the first shots of the movie involve «Deutschland uber Alles» and a smaller Nazi flag) before realizing a responsibility to the people of China.

For a movie with ambitions as big as «John Rabe,» that doesn't just make it good.

Critics Consensus: Though it strays into predictable melodrama, John Rabe is worth watching for the light it shines on a neglected corner of Chinese history.

On December 1, 1937, John Rabe (Ulrich Tukur), the manager of the Siemens plant in Nanking, is only a couple of days away from returning to his native Berlin for a promotion with his wife Dora (Dagmar Manzel).

It's worth seeing this feature about the heroic figure of John Rabe, even though the movie leaves much to be desired dramatically.

In 1937, when the occupying Japanese Army carried out mass shootings, rapes and brutal killings, the German Siemens manager and glowing admirer of the «Führer» John Rabe saved more than 200,000 Chinese by setting up a neutral zone in the center of Nanjing to provide refuge to civilians.

Not exact matches

Note that John's version comes with garlic - laden spinach, not broccoli rabe.

Stella A. Lee, beloved wife of the late Charles T.; loving mother of Gregory (Sharon) Lee, Caren (Bob) Soltysiak, Charles (Mystee) Lee, Dennis Lee, Barbara (Bernard) Ruess, Catherine (Nils) Larsson, Judi (Herb) Rabe, Toby (Don) Richardson, Tamara (Will) Conrardy, John (Gina) Lee and Stephen Lee; dear grandmother of 22 granchildren; and five great - grandchildren; dear sister of Helen Klas, Deanna Taylor, the late John Gnatek and Anna Gnatek.

Cast: Bob Balaban, Brian O'Byrne, Lily Rabe, Eric Silver, Arija Bareikis, John McMartin, Celia Weston, Zoe Kravitz, Matthew Rauch, Dearbhla Molloy, Stephanie Berry, Abigail Breslin, Catherine Zeta - Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Jenny Wade, Patricia Clarkson

Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Natalie Dormer, Liam Hemsworth, Sam Claflin, Julianne Moore, Lily Rabe, Evan Ross, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Banks, Jeffrey Wright, Stanley Tucci

Cast: Robert De Niro, Robin Wright Penn, Michael Wincott, Bruce Willis, Catherine Keener, Stanley Tucci, John Turturro, Kristen Stewart, Sean Penn, Moon Bloodgood, Lily Rabe Director: Barry Levinson Screenplay: Art Linson (from his book, «What Just Happened?

Cast: John Glover; Ismenia Mendes; Lily Rabe; Brian Stokes Mitchell; Hamish Linklater; Jack Cutmore - Scott; Austin Durant; John Pankow.