The Bridge on the River Kwai
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CountryDate
UK 2 October 1957
USA 14 December 1957
France 18 December 1957
USA 18 December 1957 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
USA 19 December 1957 (Los Angeles, California) (premiere)
Belgium 20 December 1957
Japan 22 December 1957
Brazil 23 December 1957
Hong Kong 9 January 1958
Italy 30 January 1958
Greece 7 March 1958
West Germany 7 March 1958
Australia 8 March 1958 (Sydney)
Netherlands 21 March 1958
Uruguay 18 June 1958
Sweden 18 July 1958
Denmark 18 August 1958
Finland 29 August 1958
Austria 5 September 1958
Spain 13 October 1958 (Madrid)
Portugal 28 November 1958
Denmark 29 June 1960 (re-release)
Turkey 12 March 1962
Mexico 28 February 1963
Denmark 23 April 1964 (re-release)
Denmark 21 November 1966 (re-release)
Denmark 29 March 1968 (re-release)
Finland 22 December 1972 (re-release)
Japan 28 April 1973 (re-release)
UK 15 May 1973 (re-release) (first 70mm release)
Australia 11 October 1973 (Sydney, 70MM re-release)
Hungary 18 August 1988
Czech Republic 22 January 1998
Argentina 4 May 1999 (edited version)
France 24 April 2013 (re-release) (restored version)

Also Known As (AKA)
El puente sobre el río Kwai Argentina (imdb display title) / Mexico (imdb display title) / Peru (imdb display title) / Spain (imdb display title) / Uruguay (imdb display title)
A Ponte do Rio Kwai Brazil (imdb display title) / Portugal (imdb display title)
Bron över floden Kwai Finland (imdb display title) (Swedish title) / Sweden (imdb display title)
Die Brücke am Kwai Austria (imdb display title) / West Germany (imdb display title)
Le pont de la rivière Kwai Belgium (imdb display title) (French title) / France (imdb display title)
Η Γέφυρα του Ποταμού Κβάι Greece
Мостът на река Куай Bulgaria (Bulgarian title)
Brúin yfir Kwai fljót Iceland (imdb display title)
Broen over Kwai Norway (imdb display title)
Broen over floden Kwai Denmark (imdb display title)
De brug over de rivier Kwai Belgium (imdb display title) (Flemish title)
El pont sobre el riu Kwai Spain (imdb display title) (Catalan title)
Híd a Kwai folyón Hungary (imdb display title)
Ha-Gesher Al Nahar Kwai Israel (imdb display title) (Hebrew title)
I gefyra tou potamou Kwai Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
Il ponte sul fiume Kwai Italy (imdb display title)
Kwai köprüsü Turkey (imdb display title) (Turkish title)
Kwai-joen silta Finland (imdb display title)
Most cez rieku Kwai Slovakia (imdb display title)
Most na reci Kvai Serbia (imdb display title)
Most na rzece Kwai Poland (imdb display title)
Most pres reku Kwai Czech Republic (imdb display title)
Podul de pe raul Kwai Romania (imdb display title)
Senjô ni kakeru hashi Japan (imdb display title)

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