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Released
2013 · FILM

The Railway Man

A British soldier haunted by his wartime torture seeks redemption through forgiveness as he confronts his former Japanese captor decades later.

“Revenge is never a straight line.”

Directed by
Jonathan Teplitzky
Written by
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Andy Paterson
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
116 min
BiographyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A victim from World War II

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Martin ConnorShot by Garry PhillipsScored by David HirschfelderDesigned by Steven Jones Evans

Box Office

2013 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$24.2M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$24.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $4.4M — 18% of worldwide · International: $19.7M (82%)

Also known as

  • Die Liebe seines Lebensde
  • Die Liebe seines Lebens - The Railway Mande
  • The Railway Man - Die Liebe seines Lebensde
  • Un largo viajees
  • Les Voies du destinfr
  • Le due vie del destinoit
  • Le due vie del destino - The Railway Manit

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