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The Railway Man is a British film of genre Drama released in USA on 11 april 2014 with Colin Firth

The Railway Man (2013)

The Railway Man
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Released in USA 11 april 2014
Length 1h56
Genres Drama,    War,    Biography,    Historical
Rating70% 3.547813.547813.547813.547813.54781

The Railway Man is a 2013 British–Australian war film directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. It is an adaptation of the bestselling autobiography of the same name by Eric Lomax, and stars Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine and Stellan Skarsgård. It premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2013.

Synopsis

During World War II, Eric Lomax is a British officer who is captured by the Japanese in Singapore and sent to a Japanese POW camp where he is forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway north of the Malay Peninsula. During his time in the camp as one of the Far East prisoners of war, Lomax is tortured by the Kempetai for building a radio receiver from spare parts. This is apparently due to his falling under suspicion of being a spy for supposedly using the British news broadcast receiver as a transmitter of military intelligence. His only intention, in fact, had been to use the device as a morale booster for himself and his fellow prisoner-slaves. The torture depicted includes beatings and waterboarding.

Actors

Colin Firth

(Eric)Nicole Kidman

(Patti)Jeremy Irvine

(Young Eric)Stellan Skarsgård

(Finlay)Hiroyuki Sanada

(Nagase)
And :
Tanroh Ishida
Sam Reid
Marta Dusseldorp
Ewen Leslie
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