The Railway Man (film)

The Railway Man is a 2013 BritishAustralian war film directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. It is an adaptation of the bestselling autobiography of the same name by Eric Lomax, and stars Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine and Stellan Skarsgrd. It premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival onSeptember 2013.

Years later and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, with the help of his wife Patti and best friend Finlay, Lomax decides to find and confront one of his captors who had escaped prosecution as a war criminal. He returns to the scene of his torture after he has tracked down Japanese secret police officer Takashi Nagase in an attempt to let go of a lifetime of bitterness and hate.While he was working on the screenplay, cowriter Frank Cottrell Boyce travelled to BerwickuponTweed in Northumberland with Firth to meet 91yearold Lomax. Firth said of the film I think what is not often addressed is the effect over time. We do sometimes see stories about what its like coming home from war, we very rarely see stories about what its like decades later. This is not just a portrait of suffering. Its about relationships ... how that damage interacts with intimate relationships, with love. ........

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