| Uniform Title |
Railway man (Motion picture : 2014) |
| Title |
The railway man. |
| Published |
Australia : Distributed by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia, [2022] |
| ©2014 |
| Description |
1 DVD-video (112 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm |
| Notes |
Catalogued from container. |
| Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment : DVD9241. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in 2014. |
| Special features: Interviews with Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Director, Jonathan Teplitzky. |
| Based on the best selling book by Eric Lomax. |
| Credits |
Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky ; produced by Chris Brown, Bill Curbishley, Andy Paterson ; screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson. |
| Performers |
Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgard, Hiroyuki Sanada. |
| Summary |
Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Stellan Skarsgard star in this war drama adapted from Eric Lomax's memoirs about his experiences in a POW camp. While serving in the Second World War, British Army officer Eric Lomax (Jeremy Irvine) is captured and held prisoner by the Japanese. He is brutally tortured and forced, along with his fellow captives, to build the Thai-Burma Railway. Many years later an older Lomax (Firth) is still traumatised by the experience. Supported by his wife Patti (Kidman) and friend Finlay (Skarsgard), he decides to track down one of his torturers, Takashi Nagase (Hiroyuki Sanada), hoping to find the answers that will enable him to finally let go of the hatred he has held for so long. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : M. |
| System details |
DVD video ; Dolby Digital 5.1 ; PAL ; Region 4 ; Widescreen 16:9, 2.35:1. |
| Language note |
English. [CC] English Captions [descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired]. [AD] English Audio Description (Descriptive narration for the vision impaired). |
| Subjects |
Lomax, Eric -- Film adaptations |
| Lomax, Eric -- Drama |
| Lomax, Patti -- Drama |
| Burma-Siam Railroad -- History -- Drama |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Drama |
| Prisoners of war -- Singapore -- Drama |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Burma -- Drama |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Thailand -- Drama |
| Feature films -- Great Britain |
| Motion pictures, British |
| Genre |
War films |
| Historical films |
| Biographical films |
| Film adaptations |
| Feature films |
| Fiction films |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
| Video recordings for people with visual disabilities |
| Other Names |
Teplitzky, Jonathon director. |
| Paterson, Andy producer, screenwriter. |
| Curbishley, Bill producer. |
| Brown, Chris producer. |
| Cottrell-Boyce, Frank screenwriter. |
| Firth, Colin, 1960- actor. |
| Kidman, Nicole, 1967- actor. |
| Skarsgård, Stellan actor. |
| Irvine, Jeremy, 1990- actor. |
| Sanada, Hiroyuki, 1960- actor. |
| Motion picture adaptation of (work): Lomax, Eric. Railway man. |
| Links to Related Works |
Subject References:
Broader Subject References:
Authors:
- Brown, Chris .
- Cottrell-Boyce, Frank .
- Curbishley, Bill .
- Firth, Colin, 1960- .
- Irvine, Jeremy, 1990- .
- Kidman, Nicole, 1967- .
- Lomax, Eric. Railway man .
- Paterson, Andy .
- Sanada, Hiroyuki, 1960- .
- Skarsgård, Stellan .
- Teplitzky, Jonathon .
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