Colin Firth had the honor of meeting with the real World War II veteran he portrays in the dramatic film The Railway Man, and in this new featurette he talks about how that meeting had an impact on how he felt about the project. Sadly, the real Eric Lomax passed away while the film was in post-production and didn’t get the opportunity to see the finished feature film based on his incredible life.
In addition to Firth, The Railway Man cast includes Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, and Stellan Skarsgard. The Weinstein Company is releasing The Railway Man in theaters on April 11, 2014.
The Plot:
Based on the remarkable bestselling autobiography, The Railway Man tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax (Colin Firth), a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II. Decades later, Lomax and his beautiful love interest Patti (Nicole Kidman) discover that the Japanese interpreter responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and set out to confront him, and his haunting past, in this powerful and inspiring tale of heroism, humanity and the redeeming power of love.
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