Film

Paradise Road 1997

Directed by Bruce Beresford

  • War, Drama, History
  • 122 min
  • R

Courage echoes forever.

A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.

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