TY - ADVS AU - Firth,Colin AU - Irvine,Jeremy AU - Kidman,Nicole AU - Skarsgård,Stellan AU - Teplitzky,Jonathan ED - Lions Gate Home Entertainment. TI - The railway man U1 - [E] 23 PY - 2014/// CY - [U.K.] PB - Lionsgate UK KW - Lomax, Eric. KW - Burma-Siam Railroad KW - History KW - Drama KW - fast KW - Prisoners of war KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Thailand KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Personal narratives, Scottish KW - Atrocities KW - Conscript labor KW - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese N1 - Based on the memoirs of Eric Lomax; Credits: music, David Hirschfelder; cinematographer, Garry Phillips; Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky; Made in 2013; P.B; P.B; Cast: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sam Reid, Tanroh Ishida, Marta Dusseldorp, Masa Yamaguchi, Kenichi Enomoto; BBFC code: 15 N2 - Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Stellan Skarsgård 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 (Skarsgård), 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 ER -