Ulrich Tukur

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A scene from City of Life and Death. Flow our tears the testimonies read By John Esther As Hitler and company were busy turning Europe into an abattoir their non-Occidental bootstrapping companions in the land of the rising sun marched into Nanjing, China , December 1937 to conquer, rape, steal and kill their purportedly racial inferiors. Boiling with racial hatred, the Japanese Imperial Army systematically, randomly, wantonly killed thousands of Chinese civilians and soldiers who had already...Read Full Story

A good man can only do so much in John Rabe. The good German By Don Simpson The titular hero of Florian Gallenberger’s John Rabe (Ulrich Tukur) is a German businessman and card-carrying Nazi who has resided with his wife, Dora (Dagmar Manzel), in Nanking, China for over 20 years while managing the Siemens power plant. It is now December 1937 and the Imperial Japanese Army is preparing to invade Nanking just as Siemens is planning to return Rabe to Germany. The Japanese Army strikes before...Read Full Story

CITY OF WAR: THE STORY OF JOHN RABE - an award-winning account of one man's heroism during an atrocity - is released on DVD in the UK by Metrodome on May 3. The film tells the true story of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese civilians from slaughter by the Japanese army in the Nanjing Massacre of 1937-38. The Nanjing (or Nanking) Massacre occurred in a six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing, former capital of the Republic of China, in...Read Full Story

Drama set in East Berlin prior to the fall of the communist government. Captain Gerd Weiser (Ulrich Muhe) is assigned to surveillance duties, specifically to collect information on popular dramatist Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and his actress partner Christa Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck). As he becomes more and more submerged in their lives, Weiser's own attitudes to life, politics and the state begin to change, and it's not long before he finds himself in a dangerous situation...Read Full Story