The Railway Man is a 2013 British–Australian-made 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.
Movie Details:
Directed by: Jonathan Teplitzky
Produced by: Chris Brown, Bill Curbishley, Andy Paterson
Screenplay by: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Andy Paterson
Based on: The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
Starring: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgård
Music by: David Hirschfelder
Cinematography: Garry Phillips
Edited by: Martin Connor
Production company: Archer Street Productions, Latitude Media, Pictures in Paradise, Silver Reel, Thai Occidental Productions
Distributed by: Lionsgate
Release date(s): September 6, 2013 (TIFF), December 26, 2013 (Australia), January 10, 2014 (United Kingdom)
Running time: 116 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, Australia
Language: English
Budget: £12 million
Box office: $22,320,893
Source: Wikipedia n IMDB
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Plot:
During World War II, Eric Lomax (Irvine) 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, Lomax is tortured by the Kempetai for building a radio from spare parts. Years later and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, with the help of his wife Patti (Kidman) and best friend Finlay (Skarsgård), Lomax (Firth) decides to find and confront one of his captors who had escaped prosecution as a war criminal. He returns to the scene of his torture after he has tracked down Japanese officer Takashi Nagase (Sanada) "in an attempt to let go of a lifetime of bitterness and hate".
