True Story Of The Bridge On The River Kwai

David Lean´s 1957 film immortalized the heroicism of a core group of British POWs during WWII, but the true story is yet to be told. Captured by the Japanese and put to work building a bridge, the contingent was led by Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey, whose collaboration with their captors managed to evade excessive violence or worse directed toward the captives. Often thought of as a traitor, this documentary reveals the true motivations behind the Lieutenant´s actions. Only nine people died, compared to 16,000 on the Thai-Burma railway, due to Toosey´s intervention. Although at the time, Toosey´s silence on the matter left it open to inference, over 50 hours of tapes recorded his own description of his wartime experiences, presented here for the first time.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 8 September, 2006