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City of Life and Death
20097132 min
DramaHistorieKrig
Udgivet
22. apr. 2009
Lande
China, Hong Kong
Produktioner
China Film Group CorporationMedia Asia FilmsStellar MegamediaJiangsu BroadcastingChuan Production Film Studio
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
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