Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The railway man / The Weinstein Company and Screen Australia in association with Silver Reel, Screen Queesnland, Creative Scotland, Screen NSW and Lionsgate UK present ; an Andy Paterson, Pictures in Paradise, Trinfold production ; screenplay by Frank Cottrel Boyce and Andy Paterson ; produced by Andy Paterson, Chris Brown, Bill Curbishley ; directed by Jonathan Teplitzky.

Publisher, Date:

Beverly Hills, CA : Anchor Bay Entertainment, [2014]

Description:

1 videodisc (108 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

widescreen (2.40:1) 24 fps

NTSC

video file DVD video Region 1

Summary:

Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, 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 the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Accompanied by his best friend, Lomax returns to the scene of his torture and manages to track down his captor, Japanese officer Takashi Nagase, from the prison camp, in an attempt to let go of a lifetime of bitterness and hate.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R, for disturbing prisoner of war violence.

Subjects:

Lomax, Eric -- Drama.

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 -- Personal narratives -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Drama.

Prisoners of war -- Thailand -- Biography -- Drama.

Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Drama.

Biographical films.