THE RAILWAY MAN Trailer Starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman

Here’s the new trailer for Jonathan Teplitzky‘s The Railway Man, which stars Colin Firth as a former WWII POW attempting to seek closure by tracking down and killing the man responsible for his imprisonment and torture.  Nicole Kidman plays his loving, but concerned wife, who stands by his side during this ordeal.  Stellan Skarsgård plays his best friend and Hiroyuki Sanada plays the Japanese soldier they’re tracking.

The Railway Man just had its premiere at Tiff, although there isn’t a US release date of as yet.  Hit the jump to check out the trailer and synopsis.

 

Based on his best-selling memoir, The Railway Man tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II. Decades later, Lomax discovers that the Japanese interpreter he holds responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him, and his haunting past. Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, and starring Academy Award-winner Colin Firth, Jeremy Irvine, and Academy Award-winner Nicole Kidman, the film is a powerful tale of survival, love and redemption.