Original Title: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Year: 1957
Genre:
Adventure, Drama, War
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 8,2 (DINO Rating: 8,5)
Country: UK, USA
Language:
Director: David Lean
Writer: Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman
Composer: Malcolm Arnold
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Actors: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne, André Morell, Peter Williams, John Boxer, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin, Ann Sears, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Keiichirô Katsumoto, M.R.B. Chakrabandhu, Vilaiwan Seeboonreaung, Ngamta Suphaphongs, Javanart Punynchoti, Kannikar Dowklee, Tsai Chin, Christopher Greet, Herbert Nelson
Description: The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson, they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito. He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden and an American, Shears, to blow up the bridge.
Comments:
Duration: 161 minutes (at 23.976 frames per second)
File path: Z:\02074 - Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) [DVDRip]\kwai I.avi|Z:\02074 - Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) [DVDRip]\kwai II.avi
Filesize: 1380 MB
Video: DivX 3 Low - resolution: 640x272 - quality: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
Audio:
Subtitles: Serbian, English