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Nanking

Name: Nanking
Director: Bill Guttentag
Released: 2007-01-01

2007 film by Bill Guttentag

FilmfilmQ715335

Released: 2007
Director: Bill Guttentag
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0893356/Retrieved 2016-05-01
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, Dan Sturman
Screenwriter: Bill Guttentag
, Dan Sturman
, Elisabeth Bentley
Producer: Ted Leonsis
Cast: Rosalind Chao
, Stephen Dorff
, John Getz
, Woody Harrelson
+6 more
Runtime: 88 min
Genre: documentary film
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1.metacritic.com/movie/nankingRetrieved 2016-05-01
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Country of origin: United States

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Nanking is a 2007 documentary film about the Nanjing Massacre, committed in 1937 by the Japanese army in the former capital city Nanjing, China. It was inspired by Iris Chang's book The Rape of Nanking (1997), which discussed the persecution and murder of the Chinese by the Imperial Japanese Army in the then-capital of Nanjing at the outset of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). The film draws on letters and diaries from the era as well as archive footage and interviews with surviving victims and perpetrators of the massacre. Contemporary actors play the roles of the Western missionaries, professors, and businessmen who formed the Nanking Safety Zone to protect the city's civilians from Japanese forces. Particular attention is paid to Nazi Party member John Rabe, a German businessman who organized the Nanking Safety Zone, Robert O. Wilson, a surgeon who remained in Nanjing to care for legions of victims, and Minnie Vautrin, a missionary educator who rendered aid to thousands of Nanjing's women.

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Website: nankingthefilm.com
Title: Nanking
Color: color
Narrative location: Nanjing
Kijkwijzer rating: 16 content descriptor: Coarse language, Fear
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Distribution format: video on demand
Motto text: The true story of how a few brave souls saved the lives of thousands.
Characters: Minnie Vautrin
Robert O. Wilson
John Rabe
John Magee
Lewis S.C. Smythe
George Ashmore Fitch
Li Pu
Yang Huimin
Based on: The Rape of Nanking
Review score: 76/100(April 29, 2024) review score by: Metacritic · number of reviews/ratings: 19 critic review
96%(October 6, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 47 critic review
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1.Stated in Rotten Tomatoes“Nanking”Retrieved 2021-10-06
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7.6/10(October 6, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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Director of photography: Buddy Squires
Set in period: World War II
20th century
1940s
After a work by: Iris Chang

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