2009年出現兩部關於南京大屠殺的史詩鉅片，陸川的《南京！南京！》採取一位人性尚未泯滅、不想打仗的日本軍人視角，德國導演Florian Gallenberger則根據拉貝日記，從一位善良的德國納粹黨員實業家眼中回顧這段創傷歷史。在中國工作27年又142天的拉貝（Ulrich Tukur），被西門子公司從南京分公司召回柏林。離開中國前夕，日本軍機轟炸南京城（當時中國首都），拉貝打開工廠大門，讓中國工人躲在納粹旗下。當所有人選擇離開南京或袖手旁觀時，他決定挺身而出，設立「國際安全區」安頓平民。美國醫生Robert Wilson（Steve Buscemi）不信任納粹黨員，但為了救更多人，只能選擇跟他合作。一群在中國的外國友人能救多少生命？

2009 saw two historical epics about the Japanese atrocities in the 1937 Massacre of Nanking during the second Sino-Japanese war. While Lu Chuan’s City of Life and Death deploys the point of view of a humanized, unwilling Japanese soldier, German director Florian Gallenberger bases his film on the diaries of John Rabe, a Nazi German industrialist, to look back on this traumatizing history. After working in China for 27 years and 142 days, Rabe (Ulrich Tukur) is called back from Siemens Nanking to Berlin. During his farewell party, Japanese planes start bombing Nanking (the then capital of China), which prompts Rabe to open the gate of the factory and let the Chinese workers hide under the Nazi flag. While everyone chooses to leave Nanking or look on, Rabe decides to stay and set up an international safety zone for civilians. The American doctor Robert Wilson (Steve Buscemi) doesn’t trust the Nazis but he has to collaborate with Rabe in order to rescue the Nanking Chinese.

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