Cast
- Ulrich Tukur – John Rabe
- Daniel Brühl – Dr. Georg Rosen
- Steve Buscemi – Dr. Robert O. Wilson
- Jingchu Zhang – Langshu
- Anne Consigny – Valérie Dupres
- Dagmar Manzel – Dora Rabe
- Gottfried John – Trautmann
- Teruyuki Kagawa – Prince Yasuhiko Asaka
- Yu Fang – Han
- Mathias Herrmann – Jochen Fließ
- Akira Emoto – General Iwane Matsui
- Christian Rodska – Dr. Lewis Smythe
- Christoph Hagen Dittmann – Christian Kröger
- Togo Igawa – Ambassador Fukuda
- Shaun Lawton – Rev. John Magee
- Arata – Major Ose
- Tetta Sugimoto – Lieutenant-General Kesago Nakajima
- Hans-Eckart Eckhardt – German Embassy Clerk
- Hans Joachim Heist – Scheel
- Ming Li – Chang
- Yuan Wenkang – Gu
- Philipp Keller – Sailor
Most major characters are historically accurate. However, Rabe's important fellow Nanking Safety Zone committee member Minnie Vautrin, actual director of the Ginling Girls College, is substituted by a fictive French Lady Valérie Dupres of an "International Girls College".
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