World War, 1939-1945 Drama Campaigns Burma.
Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945 Prisioneros y prisiones Japonés Teatro.
Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945 Campañas Burma Teatro.
World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons Fiction.
Academy Awards 31o. 1958 Los Ángeles, California.
World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Burma Drama.
Bridge on the River Kwai (Motion picture)
World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 Drama Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
War drama
Captured by the Japanese, British soldiers are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge. Meanwhile, a commando team has instructions to destroy the vital span.
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When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it. Rated PG.
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Captured by the Japanese, British soldiers and their ranking officer Colonel Nicholson are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge. Despite cruel treatment by the brutal Colonel Saito, Nicholson displays unyielding courage and the bridge becomes a matter of obsessive British pride to him. Meanwhile, the British High Command has instructed a commando team to destroy the vital span.
British soldiers are forced to build a railway bridge for their WWII Japanese captors, unaware of an Allied mission to blow it up. Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle.
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
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A group of British prisoners-of-war are forced to construct a bridge the completion of which becomes a personal source of pride despite its strategic importance to the enemy.
Ponte sul Fiume Kwai
Door Japanners gevangengenomen Britse soldaten worden tijdens de Tweede Wereledoorlog gedwongen een brug op de Birma spoorweg te bouwen.
In World War II, British soldiers and their ranking officer, Colonel Nicholson, were captured by the Japanese and forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge. Meanwhile the British High Command has ordered a special commando team to destroy the bridge with a U.S. seaman known as Shears heading the raiding party. But by this time, the bridge has become a point of British pride to Nicholson.
Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, un gruppo di alleati è prigioniero dei giapponesi in Birmania. Il colonnello inglese Nicholson e quello giapponese Saito, dopo duri scontri arrivano a un accordo: i prigionieri accettano di costruire un ponte, ed è lo stesso Nicholson, che ha messo in gioco il suo onore, a dirigere i lavori. (Mereghetti).
Alec Guinness, highest ranking British officer in a prisoner-of-war camp, is ordered by a fanatical Japanese commandant (Sessue Hayakawa) to supervise the building of a bridge. Focuses on the opposing, yet often identical, attitudes of these professional soldiers, and the climax is an ironic statement about the madness of war.
British POW's in Burma are employed by the Japanese to build a bridge to accomodate the Burma-Siam Railway. Meanwhile, British agents seek to destroy the bridge.
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When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma during World War II, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it.
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An adventurous and psychological drama taking place in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Burma, during World War II.
Features include trivia sabotage, maps and military strategies, screensavers from original movie art, a documentary, a featurette "Rise and fall of a jungle giant", theatrical trailer, photo gallery and more.
When British P.O.W.s are forced by the Japanese to build a strategic railroad bridge, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it.
The bridge on the river Kwai [Most na reki Kwai]
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Captured by the Japanese, British soldiers and their ranking officer, Colonel Nicholson are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge. Despite cruel treatment by the brutal Colonel Saito, Nicholson displays unyielding courage and the bridge becomes a matter of obsessive British pride to him. Meanwhile, the British High Command has instructed a commando team to destroy the vital span.
When British POW's build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, allied commandos are assigned to destroy it .
The bridge on the River kwai
Pont de la Rivière Kwai
British soldiers are forced by the Japanese to build a strategic railroad bridge. Meanwhile, the British High Command has instructed a commando team to destroy the bridge.
The Bridge on The River Kwai
Portuguese language films (Alternate sound track)
A Colonel in the British army and his soldiers are captured by the Japanese during World War II, and are forced to build a strategically located bridge.
British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Captured by the Japanese in World War II, British soldiers are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge, which becomes a matter of obsessive pride to them. Meanwhile the British High Command has instructed a commando team to destroy the vital bridge.
Set in wartime Burma during World War II, British POWs are forced to build a bridge over the River Kwai to link vital Japanese supply lines. Colonel Nicholson sees this as a way to restore his men's pride by building the perfect bridge as a tribute to British superiority. The morning the bridge is set to open, Nicholson discovers a British plot to blow up the bridge and scrambles to thwart it, leading to one of the most gripping, nail-biting endings in cinematic history.
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Bridge on the River Kwai
Captured by the Japanese, British soldiers and their commanding officer, Colonel Nicholson are forced to build a railway bridge across the River Kwai. Despite cruel treatment by brutal Colonel Saito, Nicholson displays unyielding courage and the completion of the bridge becomes a matter of obsessive British pride to him. Meanwhile, the High Command has instructed a commando team to destroy the vital span.
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British POW's in Burma are employed by the Japanese to build a bridge, meanwhile British agents seek to destroy it.
A senior British officer in a Japanese POW camp during WWII becomes locked in conflict with the Japanese camp commandant. Although the two men adhere to very different military codes a certain psychological and spiritual affinity lies at the heart of their mutual antagonism. This ultimately leads them to act in concert, if for very different reasons, to build a bridge for the Japanese war machine.
"In World War II Burma, after they are captured by Japanese troops during World War II, British commander Col. Nicholson and his troops march into Prisoner of War Camp 16 whistling their regimental tune. Their crisp arrival is wryly observed by Shears, an American sailor who bribes a guard to transfer him from the burial detail to the infirmary. When the camp's commander, Col. Saito, imperiously informs the new prisoners that they will all be expected to work on building a railroad that will connect Bangkok to Rangoon, Nicholson protests that under the regulations of the Geneva Convention, all officers are exempt from manual labor. Afterward, Nicholson goes to the infirmary to visit Jennings, one of his wounded men. There Maj. Clipton, the camp's medical officer, introduces the colonel to 'Commander Major' Shears. When Jennings proposes escaping, Nicholson counters that he was ordered by headquarters to surrender, and therefore escaping would constitute a military infraction. Incredulous at the colonel's naïveté, Shears retorts that escape is their only chance to avoid the death sentence of forced labor. The following day, Saito announces that all the men, including officers, will work on building a bridge across the River Kwai. When Nicholson defiantly waves a copy of the Geneva Convention, Saito slaps him across the face with it and flings it to the ground. Nicholson still refuses to let his officers perform manual labor, and after the other men march off to work, Saito calls for a machine gun and threatens to gun down all the officers. Watching in horror, Clipton runs out of the infirmary and protests that he and his patients have seen everything and will be witnesess to murder if Saito orders the gunners to fire. Saito then changes his mind and forces the officers to stand for the entire day in the merciless sun. Afterward, Saito locks Nicholson in 'the oven, ' a crude metal shed, and imprisons the other officers in the 'punishment hut.' As the troops encourage Nicholson with a rendition of 'For he's a jolly good fellow, ' Shears, Jennings and a prisoner named Weaver escape into the jungle. Jennings and Weaver are gunned down by the guards, who then pursue Shears to a ridge above the river and shoot him. The guards assume that Shears is dead after he plunges into the river, but he survives and makes his way down river to the shore. Later, Saito summons Clipton and asks him to tell Nicholson that unless he cooperates, the patients in the infirmary will be forced to work. Confronted with the ultimatum, Nicholson still refuses to comply on the grounds that 'it is a matter of principle.' With only two months left before the May first deadline for the completion of the bridge, Saito, frustrated by the slow progress, takes command of the project himself. After a segment of the bridge collapses, a defeated Saito has Nicholson brought to his office from the oven and explains that if he fails to meet the deadline, he will be forced to commit hara-kari. Unmoved, Nicholson insists that the Geneva Convention be adhered to, after which Saito orders him taken back to the oven. Meanwhile Shears, who was found near death by some friendly villagers, recovers and begins a solitary boat trip down river. Days later, his water exhausted, Shears passes out, leaving his boat to drift aimlessly. Plagued by ineptness and sabotage in his efforts to build the bridge, Saito orders the weakened and dehydrated Nicholson pulled from the oven and brought to his office where he grants a general amnesty to the officers and declares it will not be necessary for them to perform manual labor. As the men cheer Nicholson's victory, Saito sits in his office, broken and sobbing. Upon inspecting the bridge, Nicholson criticizes the workers' cavalier attitude and asks Capt. Reeves, who worked as a civilian engineer, for advice. Reeves observes that the river bottom at the present location is soft mud and suggests moving downstream where the bottom is solid bedrock. When Maj. Hughes, a public works engineer, criticizes the men's lack of teamwork, Nicholson declares that they will rebuild the company's morale by building an exemplary bridge. Nicholson, completely oblivious to the fact that he is about to aid and abet the enemy, presents a plan to Saito increasing the men's daily work quota and suggests that Japanese soldiers should work laying track. Seeing his position crumbling, Saito [stoically] says that he has already given the order. Shears, meanwhile, has been picked up by a sea rescue plane and brought to a hospital in Ceylon where he is visited by Maj. Warden, the explosives instructor at a nearby British commando school, who invites him to a meeting at the school. At the meeting, Warden explains that he plans to lead a team into Burma to blow up the bridge and asks Shears to join them. Shears, desirous of returning to civilian life, demurs, confessing that he was merely impersonating an officer and therefore is not qualified for the mission. Warden then informs him that the U.S. Navy already knows about his deception and has authorized his transfer to the British commandoes. Faced with possible imprisonment for impersonating an officer, Shears reluctantly accepts the assignment and retains his rank as Major. At the prison camp, Clifton warns Nicholson that he could be charged with treason for collaborating with the enemy. Obsessed by proving the mettle of his British soldiers, Nicholson turns a deaf ear to the medic's protest. At the commando school meanwhile, Shears joins a team comprised of Warden, Chapman and Lt. Joyce, a young recruit wary of killing. As the four parachute into the jungle, Chapman crashes into a tree and is killed. The others are met by Yai, a native guide who hates the Japanese, and four women bearers. As they begin their trek through the jungle, they receive a radio transmission from headquarters informing them that a special train carrying troops and VIPs is scheduled to inaugurate the bridge on the thirteenth, and ordering them to carry out the demolition on that day. Realizing that he cannot finish the bridge by the deadline, Nicholson matter-of-factly tells Clifton that he has asked the officers to work beside the enlisted men and they have volunteered 'to a man.' After Clifton's protests, Nicholson then recruits wounded men from the infirmary to perform 'light labor.' In the jungle, meanwhile, Warden's team is accosted by Japanese soldiers, and in the skirmish Warden is shot in the ankle. Warden subsequently stumbles along on his crippled foot, climbing torturous mountain paths, but when they are just six hours away from the bridge, he declares that the others should continue on without him. Angrily denouncing Warden's self-sacrifice as the histrionics of a British gentleman, Shears orders him hoisted onto a stretcher, after which they all continue on together, reaching the bridge just as Nicholson is nailing up a plaque commemorating the work of the British soldiers. That night, as the prisoners put on a show in celebration of the completion of the bridge, concluding with 'God Bless the King, ' Joyce and Shears, aided by the women, pilot a raft filled with plastic explosives to the bridge while Saito, having been bested by the British, makes preparations for hara-kari. After attaching the explosives to the bridge, Joyce takes cover with the detonator while Shears swims back across the river to await the arrival of the train the next day. At daybreak, the commandoes discover that the water level of the river has dropped, exposing the wires leading to the detonator. When the troops march onto the bridge for the ribbon cutting ceremony, Clipton informs Nicholson he wants no part of the festivities and retreats to a hill to watch. As the train whistle is heard in the distance, Nicholson spots the wires and calls Saito to go with him and investigate. Warden watches in disbelief as Nicholson follows the wire to the detonator, incredulous that a British officer would try to prevent an act of sabotage against the enemy. Sneaking up behind Saito, Joyce stabs him in the back with his knife, then informs Nicholson that they have been sent by the British to blow up the bridge. Crazed, Nicholson attacks Joyce, prompting Shears to scream 'kill him' and swim to Joyce's defense. As Warden bombards the bridge with mortar shells, the Japanese open fire, wounding Shears and killing Joyce. When the injured Shears dies at Nicholson's feet, the colonel realizes his folly just as he is wounded by mortar fire and falls onto the detonator, setting off the explosives as the train approaches the bridge. As the bridge collapses, sending the train spilling into the river, Clipton surveys the scene and utters 'madness'"--AFI catalog, 1961-1970.
Fiction
When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it.
The bridge on the river Kwai
The bridge on the river Kwai = Il ponte sul fiume Kwai
A senior British officer in a Japanese POW camp during WWII becomes locked in conflict with the Japanese camp commandant. Although the two men adhere to very different military codes a certain psychological and spiritual affinity lies at the heart of their mutual antagonism. This ultimately leads them to act in concert, if for very different reasons, to build a bridge for the Japanese war machine. The novel's ironies originally in the script of then black-listed writers Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson are somewhat muffled by the ambiguous ending and the relatively stereotyped parallel plot (almost a second film) involving a cynical American soldier.
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French language films (Alternate sound track)
The bridge on the river Kwai Le pont de la rivière Kwai
Presents the story of British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II and are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
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British soldiers captured by the hapanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
The bridge on the river Kwai = Most na rzece Kwai
Fiction films
During World War 11, British soldiers and their ranking officer, Colonel Nicholson, were captured by the Japanese and forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge for the Japanese war-machine. Meanwhile, the British High Command has ordered a special commando team to destroy the bridge, with an American seaman known as Shears in charge of the raiding party. But by this time, the bridge has become a point of British pride to Col. Nicholson.
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Le colonel Nicholson et ses hommes sont capturés à Singapour et acheminés vers un camp japonais dans la jungle birmane. Le commandant du camp, le colonel Saïto, emploie les prisonniers à construire un pont et veut exiger le même travail des officiers britanniques. Nicholson s'y oppose. Saïto, après l'avoir torturé, finit par le laisser diriger la construction. Un Américain, évadé du camp, alerte les quartiers généraux britanniques sur ces travaux stratégiques. Il aura pour mission de faire sauter le pont.
The bridge on the River Kwai (Motion picture)
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The Bridge on the river Kwai
Captured by the Japanese, British soldiers and their ranking officer are forced to construct a strategic railway bridge. Meanwhile, the British high command has instructed a commando team to destroy the bridge.
British soldiers are forced to build a railway bridge for their WWII Japanese captors, unaware of an Allied mission to blow it up. Winner of seven Academy Awards. Based on the novel Le Pont de la Riviere Kwai by Pierre Boulle.
The story centers on a Japanese prison camp isolated deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, where the remorseless Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) has been charged with building a vitally important railway bridge. His clash of wills with a British prisoner, the charismatic Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), escalates into a duel of honor, Nicholson defying his captor's demands to win concessions for his troops. How the two officers reach a compromise, and Nicholson becomes obsessed with building that bridge, provides the story's thematic spine; the parallel movement of a team of commandos dispatched to stop the project, led by a British major (Jack Hawkins) and guided by an American escapee (William Holden), supplies the story's suspense and forward momentum. Shot on location in Sri Lanka, Kwai moves with a careful, even deliberate pace that survivors of latter-day, high-concept blockbusters might find lulling--Lean doesn't pander to attention deficit disorders with an explosion every 15 minutes. Instead, he guides us toward the intersection of the two plots, accruing remarkable character details through extraordinary performances.
British POWs, captured by the Japanese, are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam Railway.
The bridge on the River Kwai
British soldiers are forced by the Japanese to build a strategic railroad bridge, while the British High Command has instructed a commando team to destroy it.
This World War II epic focuses on the efforts of British prisoners of war to reconstruct a stategic railroad bridge.
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Bellico (Genere)
Academy Award films
Captured by the Japanese in World War II, British soldiers are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge.
Prisoner of war films and programs
Drama
Ponte sul fiume Kwai
Feature film from the UK. British agents seek to destroy a bridge for the Burma-Siam Railway being made by British Prisoners of War of the Japanese in Burma.
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British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge for their WWII Japanese captors, unaware of an Allied mission to blow it up.
Puente sobre el Rio Kway
World War, 1939-1945 Motion pictures and the war.