With Padma getting ready for her weekly Bitch & Stitch session, we skipped our early-morning walk which allowed me to bury my head in a book I've wanted to read for some time now: "The Bridge on the River Kwai" by Pierre Boulle who also wrote "Planet of the Apes".
I was on the cusp of becoming a teenager when this epic war movie came to the cinemas in Germany, and for many years thereafter every German boy could whistle the "Colonel Bogey March" (which you could be forgiven to think to have been specifically composed for this movie but is in fact a British march going back to 1914, and which regained popularity at the start of World War II as "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball").
Since I first saw this movie with a German soundtrack, I thought it only fair to also treat you to a German trailer since there is no full-length version of the English movie on YouTube. However, there are several documentaries on YouTube which are just as interesting as the movie:
"The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai"
"BBC Production 1992: The true story of the Burma railway and the bridge on the river Kwai told by those who were there"
"Revealed: The Bridge on the River Kwai. Windfall documentary 2002"
"What I Learned From Watching "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
"The Making of the Movie"
"The Bridge on the River Kwai : Exploring the Thailand - Burma Railway"
And as many documentaries there are about the Bridge on the River Kwai, there are books in addition to the original book by Pierre Boulle:
And, finally, the book by the man who wrote the book, Pierre Boulle:
This should keep you busy while I finally read the book after some sixty-five years have passed since I watched the movie "Die Brücke am Kwai".
