1) German soldiers who fall into Japanese captivity, forced to build a bridge over the River Kwai.
2) A demolition squad from the English headquarters, aims selbstverstaendlich after this bridge is not to give rise.
During the bridge construction, striving (or rather their Colonel Nicholson) to highest pedantry and perfection the prisoners, precisely in order to demonstrate in captivity "their intellectuals and working moral superiority". For the leader of the demolition squads, however, is the complete and proper destruction of the bridge, including the convoy, on the very first day of operation, the highest premise. Both camps work meticulously, and a day of blowing it comes to a climax, but not with a twist that might have been expected, but with the falls in the category "When everything seems perfect, usually something wrong."
Stylistically very straight forward, humorous, without digressions, with relatively fast progress and a final ala "Planet of the Apes", unexpected, dramatic and all throwing overboard. All together, a highly recommended classic!
