The flashback structure can't help but make the film feel a bit disjointed, although the performance of the excellent Jeremy Irvine as the young Eric makes the jumps less jarring. Here are Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth shooting The Railway Man in Perth. Here, the narrative changes tack once again, only to build to an unexpected but powerful conclusion. : The Railway Man NON-USA Format PAL Region 4 Import - Australia : Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgard, Jonathan Teplitzky. The Railway Man - Die Liebe Seines Lebens Nicole Kidman Colin Firth Blu-ray. On a cross-country train trip, however, he meets Patti (Nicole Kidman). Patti's involvement is then shunted into the sidelines, as Eric learns that the soldier who once tortured him is still alive, prompting him to journey east for a confrontation. Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine and Stellan Skarsgrd star in this drama based on a true story. Teplitzky, Jonathan, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Andy Paterson, David Hirschfelder, Eric Lomax, Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgrd, Jeremy Irvine, and. quiet and lonely WWII veteran, played by the predictably solid Colin Firth. As she investigates further, more is revealed about Eric's past as a PoW who was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and forced to work on the notorious Thai-Burma railway.
After they marry, Patti learns that the nerdy ex-soldier is given to horrific nightmares. Stream The Railway Man, watch trailers, see the cast, and more at TV Guide. The story begins in 1983, when train spotter Eric Lomax (Firth) meets future wife Patti (Kidman) en route to Scotland. Colin Firth embodies the suffering of Eric Lomax, a veteran who still experiences post-traumatic nightmares decades after the war. He seems to be based partly on Lomax’s real friend Jim Bradley, though Finlay’s dramatic acts in the 1980 section of this film were invented by the film-makers.Though it adds an extra hallmark of quality, the casting of Nicole Kidman alongside Colin Firth in this polished biographical drama is rather deceptive, suggesting a love story that never quite materialises. In the film, Patti can’t get the story out of him, so she talks instead to his friend and fellow veteran Finlay (Stellan Skarsgård). He was transported to Thailand, where he was put to work as an engineer on the construction of the Death Railway. Eric Lomax was a lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals, taken prisoner by the Japanese on the fall of Singapore in 1942. Their dreamy romance darkens as she realises he is suffering from severe trauma. He shaves off his unflattering moustache, so she falls in love with him back. In 1980, Eric Lomax (Colin Firth, perfectly cast) falls in love with a woman called Patti Wallace (Nicole Kidman). Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife forced to revisit the trauma of his WWII past in Jonathan Teplitzky's drama based on the true story of Eric. (2013) Colin Firth, Jeremy Irvine and Nicole Kidman star in a fact-based drama about a British Army officer who, during WWII, was forced to work on the.
Every sleeper laid was said to have cost a human life. Jonathan Teplitzky (The Weinstein Company)4 Stars Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman star in 'The Railway Man.' By Ha D.H. Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Colin Firth, Tanroh Ishida, Stellan Skarsgard. Perhaps hundreds of thousands of Asian labourers, mostly conscripted, and 60,000 allied prisoners of war were forced to build the line. During the second world war, the Japanese constructed the Burma-Siam Railway.