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Limited Edition Steelbook collectors item. Directed by David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai is an Academy Award winning war film set during World War II. The film won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, and depicts Allied prisoners of war forced to build a strategic railway bridge for the Japanese army. Renowned for its moral complexity and epic scale, it remains one of the most influential war films in cinema history. Från IMDB: British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it. Detta är en importfilm. De har oftast inte svensk text
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
162 min
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.