THE RAILWAY MAN (2013)

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Plot

While serving in the Second World War, British Army officer Eric Lomax 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 he is still traumatised by the experience and when the opportunity arises to track down one of his torturers Eric pursues the course like a man possessed. A sensitive dramatisation of Eric Lomax's memoirs.