Jonathan Teplitzky's film adapts Eric Lomax's memoir of his torture as a prisoner of war on the Burma Railway and his meeting, decades later, with one of the Japanese men who tormented him.
Nonfiction· 1995· Nonfiction
The Railway Man
by Eric Lomax
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- Imprisonment
- Military service
- Trauma & healing
Eric Lomax's memoir of his capture at Singapore, his torture while a prisoner working on the Burma Railway, and his meeting fifty years later with the interpreter who had interrogated him.