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Title:
The railway man [blu-ray] / screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Patterson ; directed by Jonathan Teplitzky.
Format:
[blu-ray] /
Edition:
[Widescreen version]
Publisher:
Anchor Bay Films,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject:
Lomax, Eric.
Burma-Siam Railroad--History--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Drama.--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Drama.
Prisoners of war--Thailand--Drama.--Drama.
Prisoners of war--Great Britain--Drama.--Drama.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
Cottrell Boyce, Frank, screenwriter.
Patterson, Andy, screenwriter.
Teplitzky, Jonathan, film director.
Firth, Colin, 1960- actor.
Kidman, Nicole, 1967- actor.
Skarsgård, Stellan, actor.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Lomax, Eric. Railway man.
Anchor Bay Films, film distributor.
Notes:
Title from sell sheet. Originally released as a motion picture in 2013. Based on the autobiography of Eric Lomax. Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine, Sam Reid, Hiroyuki Sanada.
Summary:
Eric Lomax is a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering from the psychological trauma, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Lomax returns to the scene of his torture and manages to track down his captor from the prison camp in an attempt to let go of a lifetime of bitterness and hate. Based on a true story.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)881693602
UPC:
013132617619
Locations:
TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)
SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)
ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)
S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)
GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

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