The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai
Directit bi	David Lean
Produced bi	Sam Spiegel
Screenplay bi	Carl Foreman Michael Wilson
Based on	The Bridge over the River Kwai bi Pierre Boulle
Starnin	William Holden Alec Guinness Jack Hawkins Sessue Hayakawa
Muisic bi	Malcolm Arnold
Cinematography	Jack Hildyard
Eeditit bi	Peter Taylor
Production company	Horizon Pictures
Distributit bi	Columbia Pictures
Release date	2 October 1957 (1957-10-02)
Rinnin time	161 minutes
Kintra	USA/UK
Leid	Inglis
Budget	$3 million (estimatit)
Box office	$33.3 million (in U.S.)

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 Breetish-American Warld War II film directit bi David Lean, based on the eponymous French novel (1952) bi Pierre Boulle. The film is a wirk o fiction but borrows the construction o the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical settin. It starns William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness an Sessue Hayakawa. The film wis filmed in Ceylon (nou kent as Sri Lanka). The bridge in the film wis locatit near Kitulgala.

The film achieved near-universal creetical acclaim, winnin seiven Academy Awairds (includin Best Picture) at the 30t Academy Awards, an in 1997 this film wis deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically signieeficant" an selectit for preservation in the Unitit States Library o Congress National Film Registry. It is widely considered tae be ane o the greatest films o aw time.