The story of John Rabe from Hamburg
This documentary tells the story of businessman and NSDAP member John Rabe from Hamburg, who worked for the German Siemens company in the Chinese city of Nanking in the 1930s. When Japanese soldiers raided the city in 1937, he saved the lives of countless children from a massacre that took 300,000 victims. While his actions were harshly criticised in Germany, John Rabe is still being worshipped as a hero in China today. Director Raymond Ley tells of the horrors of the massacre and of the lonely end of Rabe's life in 1950 in Berlin.
Nanking 1937 – Tagebuch eines Massakers - Backstage
Director of photography: | Jens Dittmar |
Film editor: | Tina Freitag |
Sound editor: | Maximilian Schecker |
Composer: | Hans P. Ströer |
Location manager: | Sven Heiligenstein |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel |
Executive producer: | Andreas Knoblauch |
Program manager: | Ulrike Dotzer, NDR
Christian Hinz, WDR |
Assistant program manager: | Hanna Gundlach |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Principal photography: | 2006 / 2007 |
Shooting location: | Nanking, Berlin |
To be aired on: | WDR, NDR in cooperation with arte, 2007 |
Rewarded with the Magnolia Award in Silver at the Shanghai TV Festival, 2010
