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It is directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as Adrienne Pargiter

Based on the testimony of survivors, this historical drama recounts the WWII heroism of female prisoners of war. It is directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as Adrienne Pargiter. Frances McDormand as the brash Dr. Verstak ,. Pauline Collins as missionary Margaret Drummond.

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It is directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as Adrienne Pargiter

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  1. Based on the testimony of survivors, this historical drama recounts the WWII heroism of female prisoners of war.

  2. It is directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as Adrienne Pargiter

  3. Frances McDormand as the brash Dr. Verstak,

  4. Pauline Collins as missionary Margaret Drummond

  5. Julianna Margulies as American socialite Topsy Merritt,

  6. Jennifer Ehle as British doyenne and model Rosemary Leighton Jones

  7. Cate Blanchett as Australian nurse Susan McCarthy

  8. and Elizabeth Spriggs as dowager Imogene Roberts.

  9. Stan Egi as Captain Tanaka

  10. Clyde Kusatsu: Sergeant Tomiashi, 'The Snake‘.

  11. David Chung ... The Interpreter

  12. Sab Shimono as Colonel Hirota

  13. When their gunboat is sunk in an air attack, the survivors wash ashore on Japanese-held Sumatra.

  14. The film examines and explores how, in times of adverse danger and suffering, people have the capacity to make it through by means of moral support and strength.

  15. The film highlights the atrocities of war

  16. One example of this is the woman doused in petrol, then set alight.

  17. The film also effectively explores the control of the Sumatran society and the disregard for the sanctity of Red Cross services.

  18. Faced with adversity, the women slowly understand that their survival is dependent on their individual and collective responses to the conflicts and horrors they encounter.

  19. The establishment of a vocal choir provides them with the impetus to find ways of working together to retain dignity and to find solace in the face of overwhelming challenges.

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