The Railwayman, Lomax, Firth & Sanada
Colin Firth as Lomax and Nicole Kidman as his wife (image via)
Eric Lomax, a former British soldier who was tortured by the Japanese while he was a prisoner during World War II and half a century later forgave one of his tormentors — an experience he recounted in a memoir, “The Railway Man” — died on Monday in Berwick-upon-Tweed, England. He was 93.
Lomax 
Eric Sutherland Lomax (30 May 1919 – 8 October 2012)
Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth mourn death of the man who inspired their movie, The Railway Man
The men’s struggle against the odds was most famously depicted in David Lean’s 1957 film ‘The Bridge On The River Kwai’.
Lomax eventually returned to the place he had been ruthlessly worked almost to death and met the interpreter and torturer, who had been the cause of so much pain.
The film’s producer, Andy Paterson, told the BBC :”The cast and crew of The Railway Man are deeply saddened to hear of Eric Lomax’s death. All our thoughts today are with his family.”
Skarsgard played Lomax’s wartime buddy, while Sanada portrayed Lomax’s tormentor who he meets again years later.
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