![]() But Colonel Nicholson holds firm to the principle that officers should be exempted from manual labour. Saito expects all the Allied prisoners to work on the railway and on the bridge, including the officers, something that is against the stipulations of the Geneva Convention. The new men are led by Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), who will soon come into conflict with Colonel Saito. ![]() The film arrives in the camp at roughly the same time as a new influx of British prisoners. The bridge is being constructed by the mainly British inmates of a prison camp commanded by Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). The Bridge on the River Kwai focuses on the building of one particular rail bridge over the River Kwai. The Japanese military strategy for the region involves building a railway from Burma to Siam (modern day Thailand), using the forced labour of captured civilians and Allied prisoners of war. ![]() The film is set in 1943, as the forces of Imperial Japan are tightening their hold on South East Asia. ![]() The Bridge on the River Kwai is an epic World War II film directed by David Lean and based on the novel by Pierre Boulle. ![]()
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