الجسر على نهر كواي (فيلم)

The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1958 US poster - Style A).jpg
American theatrical release poster, "Style A"
اخراجDavid Lean
انتاجSam Spiegel
الحوار السينمائي
بطولة
موسيقىMalcolm Arnold
سينماتوگرافياJack Hildyard
تحريرPeter Taylor
شركــة
الانتاج
توزيعColumbia Pictures
تواريخ العرض2 أكتوبر 1957 (1957-10-02) (London-premiere)
11 أكتوبر 1957 (1957-10-11) (United Kingdom)ديسمبر 14، 1957 (1957-12-14) (United States)
طول الفيلم161 minutes
البلدUnited Kingdom
United States[1]
اللغةEnglish
الميزانية$2.8 million[2]
إيراد الشباك$30.6 million (worldwide rentals from initial release)[2]

الجسر على نهر كواي إنگليزية: The Bridge on the River Kwai فيلم سينمائي بريطاني من إخراج داڤيد لين وإنتاج سام سپيگل عام 1957 استنادا إلى رواية كتبها پيير بوليه تحمل نفس العنوان. وكتب السيناريو والحوار كارل فورمان ومايكل ويلسون. وقام بالأدوار الرئيسية ألك گينس وسيزو هاياكاوا ووليام هولدن وجاك هوكنز وجيفري هورن.

تدور أحداث الفيلم أثناء الحرب العالمية الثانية في معسكر ياباني للأسرى من الجيش البريطاني في جنوب بورما حيث يجبر الأسرى على بناء جسر خشبي على نهر كواي لينقل قطارات الجيش الياباني عبره خلال الحرب. ولكنهم بالرغم من عملية التصميم والبناء المتينة إلا أنهم خططوا لتفجيره كونه يخدم أعداءهم اليابانيين.

The Bridge on the River Kwai is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. It was the highest-grossing film of 1957 and received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics. The film won seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture) at the 30th Academy Awards. In 1997, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress.[3][4] It has been included on the American Film Institute's list of best American films ever made.[5][6] In 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Bridge on the River Kwai the 11th greatest British film of the 20th century.

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الدقة التاريخية

The River Kwai railroad bridge in 2017. The arched sections are original (constructed by Japan during WWII); the two sections with trapezoidal trusses were built by Japan after the war as war reparations, replacing sections destroyed by Allied aircraft.

The plot and characters of Boulle's novel and the screenplay were almost entirely fictional.[7] Since it was not a documentary, there are many historical inaccuracies in the film, as noted by eyewitnesses to the building of the real Burma Railway by historians.[8][9][10][11]

The conditions to which POW and civilian labourers were subjected were far worse than the film depicted.[12] According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:

The notorious Burma-Siam railway, built by Commonwealth, Dutch and American prisoners of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma. During its construction, approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the railway. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians also died in the course of the project, chiefly forced labour brought from Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, or conscripted in Siam (Thailand) and Burma. Two labour forces, one based in Siam and the other in Burma, worked from opposite ends of the line towards the centre.[13]

Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey of the British Army was the real senior Allied officer at the bridge in question. Toosey was very different from Nicholson and was certainly not a collaborator who felt obliged to work with the Japanese. Toosey in fact did as much as possible to delay the building of the bridge. While Nicholson disapproves of acts of sabotage and other deliberate attempts to delay progress, Toosey encouraged this: termites were collected in large numbers to eat the wooden structures, and the concrete was badly mixed.[9][10] Some consider the film to be an insulting parody of Toosey.[9]

On a BBC Timewatch programme, a former prisoner at the camp states that it is unlikely that a man like the fictional Nicholson could have risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and, if he had, due to his collaboration he would have been "quietly eliminated" by the other prisoners.[بحاجة لمصدر]

Julie Summers, in her book The Colonel of Tamarkan, writes that Boulle, who had been a prisoner of war in Thailand, created the fictional Nicholson character as an amalgam of his memories of collaborating French officers.[9] He strongly denied the claim that the book was anti-British, although many involved in the film itself (including Alec Guinness) felt otherwise.[14]

Ernest Gordon, a survivor of the railway construction and POW camps described in the novel/film, stated in his 1962 book, Through the Valley of the Kwai:

In Pierre Boulle's book The Bridge over the River Kwai and the film which was based on it, the impression was given that British officers not only took part in building the bridge willingly, but finished in record time to demonstrate to the enemy their superior efficiency. This was an entertaining story. But I am writing a factual account, and in justice to these men—living and dead—who worked on that bridge, I must make it clear that we never did so willingly. We worked at bayonet point and under bamboo lash, taking any risk to sabotage the operation whenever the opportunity arose.[8]

A 1969 BBC television documentary, Return to the River Kwai, made by former POW John Coast,[11] sought to highlight the real history behind the film (partly through getting ex-POWs to question its factual basis, for example Dr Hugh de Wardener and Lt-Col Alfred Knights), which angered many former POWs. The documentary itself was described by one newspaper reviewer when it was shown on Boxing Day 1974 (The Bridge on the River Kwai had been shown on BBC1 on Christmas Day 1974) as "Following the movie, this is a rerun of the antidote."[15]

Some of the characters in the film use the names of real people who were involved in the Burma Railway. Their roles and characters, however, are fictionalised. For example, a Sergeant-Major Risaburo Saito was in real life second in command at the camp. In the film, a Colonel Saito is camp commandant. In reality, Risaburo Saito was respected by his prisoners for being comparatively merciful and fair towards them. Toosey later defended him in his war crimes trial after the war, and the two became friends.

The major railway bridge described in the novel and film did not actually cross the river known at the time as the Kwai. However, in 1943 a railway bridge was built by Allied POWs over the Mae Klong river – renamed Khwae Yai in the 1960s as a result of the film – at Tha Ma Kham, five kilometres from Kanchanaburi, Thailand.[16] Boulle had never been to the bridge. He knew that the railway ran parallel to the Kwae for many miles, and he therefore assumed that it was the Kwae which it crossed just north of Kanchanaburi. This was an incorrect assumption. The destruction of the bridge as depicted in the film is also entirely fictional. In fact, two bridges were built: a temporary wooden bridge and a permanent steel/concrete bridge a few months later. Both bridges were used for two years, until they were destroyed by Allied bombing. The steel bridge was repaired and is still in use today.[16]


استقبال الفيلم

مبيعات تذاكر المشاهدين

American theatrical release poster, "Style B", featuring Holden.


جوائز أوسكار

الجائزة الحاصل عليها
أفضل إخراج داڤيد لين
أفضل ممثل ألك گينس
أفضل تصوير جاك هيليارد
أفضل فيلم سام سپيگل
أفضل مونتاج پيتر تايلور
أفضل موسيقى مالكولم أرنولد
أفضل كتابة كارل فورمان
مايكل ويلسون
بيير بوليه
الترشيح:
أفضل ممثل مساند سيزو هاياكاوا

Accolades

Award Category Nominee(s) Result
Academy Awards Best Picture Sam Spiegel فائز
Best Director David Lean فائز
Best Actor Alec Guinness فائز
Best Supporting Actor Sessue Hayakawa رُشح
Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman and Pierre Boulle فائز
Best Cinematography Jack Hildyard فائز
Best Film Editing Peter Taylor فائز
Best Original Score Malcolm Arnold فائز
British Academy Film Awards Best Film فائز
Best British Film فائز
Best British Actor Alec Guinness فائز
Best British Screenplay Pierre Boulle فائز
British Society of Cinematographers Best Cinematography Jack Hildyard فائز
David di Donatello Awards Best Foreign Production Sam Spiegel فائز
Directors Guild of America Awards Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures David Lean فائز
DVD Exclusive Awards Best DVD Menu Design رُشح
Best DVD Original Retrospective Documentary/Featurette Laurent Bouzereau (for The Making of "The Bridge on the River Kwai") رُشح
Golden Globe Awards Best Motion Picture – Drama فائز
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Alec Guinness فائز
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Sessue Hayakawa رُشح
Best Director – Motion Picture David Lean فائز
Golden Screen Awards Golden Screen فائز
Golden Screen with 1 Star فائز
Grammy Awards Best Sound Track Album, Dramatic Picture Score or Original Cast Malcolm Arnold رُشح
Laurel Awards Top Drama رُشح
Top Male Dramatic Performance Alec Guinness رُشح
National Board of Review Awards Best Film فائز
Top Ten Films فائز
Best Director David Lean فائز
Best Actor Alec Guinness فائز
Best Supporting Actor Sessue Hayakawa فائز
National Film Preservation Board National Film Registry Inducted
New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Film فائز
Best Director David Lean فائز
Best Actor Alec Guinness فائز
Online Film & Television Association Awards Hall of Fame – Motion Picture فائز
Sant Jordi Awards Best Foreign Actor Alec Guinness فائز

American Film Institute lists:

The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

The British Film Institute placed The Bridge on the River Kwai as the 11th greatest British film.

انظر أيضاً

مراجع

  1. ^ "The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 يوليو 2012. Retrieved 7 يوليو 2014.
  2. ^ أ ب Hall, Sheldon (2010). Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History. Wayne State University Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0814330081.
  3. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing | Film Registry | National Film Preservation Board | Programs at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 18 سبتمبر 2020.
  4. ^ "New to the National Film Registry (December 1997) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 18 سبتمبر 2020.
  5. ^ On the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies lists, in 1998 (#13) and 2007 (#36)
  6. ^ Roger Ebert. "Great Movies: The First 100". Retrieved 25 فبراير 2013.
  7. ^ "Remembering the railway: The Bridge on the River Kwai, www.hellfire-pass.commemoration.gov.au. Retrieved 09-24-2015.
  8. ^ أ ب Gordon, Ernest (1962). Through the Valley of the Kwai. New York: Harper & Row Publishers. ISBN 978-1579100360.
  9. ^ أ ب ت ث Summer, Julie (2005). The Colonel of Tamarkan. Simon & Schuster Ltd. ISBN 0-7432-6350-2.
  10. ^ أ ب Davies, Peter N. (1991). The Man Behind the Bridge. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0-485-11402-X.
  11. ^ أ ب A transcript of the interview and the documentary as a whole can be found in the new edition of John Coast's book Railroad of Death.Coast, John (2014). Railroad of Death. Myrmidon. ISBN 978-1-905802-93-7.
  12. ^ "links for research, Allied POWs under the Japanese". mansell.com. Retrieved 10 مارس 2016.
  13. ^ Reading Room Manchester. "CWGC - Cemetery Details". cwgc.org. Retrieved 10 مارس 2016.
  14. ^ Brownlow, Kevin (1996). David Lean: A Biography. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-14578-0. pp. 391 and 766n
  15. ^ "Boxing Day [TV Listing]". The Guardian. London. 24 ديسمبر 1974. p. 14.
  16. ^ أ ب "The Colonel of Tamarkan: Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai", published by the National Army Museum on 03-04-2012. Retrieved 09-24-2015.