Sentences with phrase «experience as a prisoner of war»

Deeply stamped by his experience as a prisoner of war, he returned to Germany after World War II to study theology.

According to his wife, Rose, after his experience as a prisoner of war, Roy could never get warm or endure farm work.

Not exact matches

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.

This middle - aged romance quickly turns grim and into a war drama, because Lomax remains traumatized by his experiences as Japan's prisoner of war nearly forty years ago.

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.