THE RAILWAY MAN

Genre: Drama
Prime Release Date: 11 April 2014
Duration: 116 min.
Studio: Lionsgate
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CAST & CREW

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Producer: Chris Brown, Bill Curbishley, Andy Paterson
Scriptwriter: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Andy Paterson
 
players:
Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgard, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sam Reid, James Fraser, Tanroh Ishida, Akos Armon  


STORY PLOT

"The Railway Man" is a film based on the autobiography of Eric Lomax. In World War II, Eric Lomax (Colin Firth) is a British Army officer who was captured by the Japanese army in Singapore. He was sent to a labor camp where he had worked in the construction Thai-Burma railway line. During the camp, he was often tortured, beaten and saw the Japanese army atrocities against his fellow prisoners.

After the war ended, he suffered trauma and had to undergo rehabilitation. His wife, Patti (Nicole Kidman) tries to help her husband to fight the trauma. After decades, Lomax found that Japanese officers, Takashi Nagase (Hiroyuki Sanada) is responsible for all the suffering, is still alive.

Accompanied by a good friend (Stellan Skarsgard), Lomax trying to get back to where he was tortured and came back to see Nagase. Now, he must try to resolve the existing problems between them.

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