The Seed and the Sower

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Filmed as Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence starring David Bowie & Tom Conti. This is war as experienced in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java in 1942. It's the story of two British officers whose spirit the Japanese try to break. Yet out of the terrible violence & hardship strange bonds of love & friendship are forged between the prisoners & their jailers. Christmas Eve: A bar of shadow Christmas morning: The morning after A brother The initiation The growth of nothing "The day far spent" The sowing of the seed Christmas night: The sword & the doll