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The Railway Man is a 2013 war film directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. It is an adaptation of the 1995 autobiography of the same name by Eric Lomax , and stars Colin Firth , Nicole Kidman , Jeremy Irvine , and Stellan Skarsgård .
With Jeremy Irvine, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman. A former British Army officer, who was tortured as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Jonathan Teplitzky
- 2014-05-23
Apr 11, 2014 · Austere and old-fashioned almost to a fault, “The Railway Man” offers tastefully safe treatment of a horrific subject: the torture of a British Army officer at a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II.
Apr 3, 2014 · Unlike Colin Firth's character in the film (left), the true story behind The Railway Man movie reveals that the real Eric Lomax (right) had been married for 37 years and had 3 children prior to meeting Patti (Nicole Kidman's character).
Understated to a fault, The Railway Man transcends its occasionally stodgy pacing with a touching, fact-based story and the quiet chemistry of its stars. Read Critics Reviews
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- Jonathan Teplitzky
- R
- Colin Firth
Apr 10, 2014 · The film, directed by Jonathan Teplitzky (“Burning Man”) from a screen adaptation of Lomax’s 1995 memoir, tells the true story of his brutal treatment by the Japanese after his capture in ...
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Based on his best-selling memoir, The Railway Man tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour...
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