Director Jonathan Teplitzky (Getting» Square), writer Frank Cottrell Boyce (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) and producer turned co-scribe Andy Patterson (Burning Man) adapt Eric Lomax's autobiography
of the same name into a consideration
of closure and catharsis,
as focused on the juxtaposition
of the young Lomax's (Jeremy Irvine, Great Expectations) experiences in a Japanese
prisoner -
of -
war camp, working on the Thai - Burma Railway in cruel
conditions, and the elder Lomax's (Colin Firth, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) troubles when attempting to cope, particularly on the occasion
of his marriage to the sympathetic Patti (Nicole Kidman, Stoker) decades later.
Based on a true story, The Railway Man stars Colin Firth
as Eric Lomax, a British WWII veteran and a survivor
of the horrifying
conditions and treatment he experienced at a Japanese
Prisoner of War camp.