The railway man
Type
Label
The railway man
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Rated R
Main title
The railway man
Medium
electronic resource
Runtime
108
Summary
Based on the remarkable bestselling autobiography, THE RAILWAY MAN tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax (Colin Firth), a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II. Decades later, Lomax and his beautiful love interest Patti (Nicole Kidman) discover that the Japanese interpreter responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and set out to confront him, and his haunting past, in this powerful and inspiring tale of heroism, humanity and the redeeming power of love
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Contributor
Subject
- World War, 1939-1945 + Atrocities -- Drama
- Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives -- Drama
- Burma-Siam Railroad -- History -- Drama
- War films
- Biographical films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- Prisoners of war -- Thailand -- Biography -- Drama
- Lomax, Eric -- Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 + Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 + Conscript labor -- Drama
Content
Actor
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor16
- Genre4
- Subject12
- World War, 1939-1945 + Atrocities -- Drama
- Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives -- Drama
- Burma-Siam Railroad -- History -- Drama
- War films
- Biographical films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- Prisoners of war -- Thailand -- Biography -- Drama
- Lomax, Eric -- Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 + Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 + Conscript labor -- Drama
- Content1
- Actor7
- resource.directorofphotography1
- resource.filmdirector1
- resource.filmproducer3
- composerexpression1
- resource.screenwriter2