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The Railway Man

by Jonathan Teplitzky

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The Railway Man

Nonfiction · 1995

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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.

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The Railway Man

A former British Army officer, who was tortured as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him. The Railway Man is a 2013 war film directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. It is an adaptation of the 1995 autobiography of the same name by Eric Lomax, and stars Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, and Stellan Skarsgård. It premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2013.

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