tanty
It is always a pleasure to watch one of Ed Harris movies.
The plot hooks you and the staging is impressive but the movie is not as thrilling as it could have been.
The Way Back
- Drama
- Adventure
- History
11/22/2010
133
PG-13
Their escape was just the beginning.
At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.
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- Revenue:
- $24,200,000
- Budget:
- $30,000,000
Videos
Cast
Ed HarrisMr. Smith- Jim SturgessJanusz Wieszczek
Saoirse RonanIrena Zielińska- Colin FarrellValka
- Mark StrongAndrei Khabarov
- Gustaf SkarsgårdAndrejs Voss
- Dejan AngelovAndrei
- Dragoș BucurZoran
- Sally BrunskiJanusz's Wife, 1939
- Alexandru PotoceanTomasz Horodinsky
- Sebastian UrzendowskyKazik
- Zahari BaharovInterrogator
- Ihor HniezdilovBohdan
- Stanislav PishtalovCommandant
- Mariy GrigorovLazar
- Nikolay StanoevYuri
Reviews
Wuchak
Better to die free than live under the shackles of communism
"The Way Back" (2010) takes place circa 1940-42 and details a group's mad escape from a Siberian gulag through the cold, desolate Soviet wilderness into Mongolia, across the great Gobi desert, through mountainous Tibet and ultimately freedom in India. The film was inspired by Slavomir Rawicz' popular book "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom," but not based on it.
After records of Rawicz' release from the gulag by the USSR in 1942 were unearthed the veracity of the book was called into question; others suggest that, although the circumstances of the story may not have happened to author Rawicz, they're apparently based on real events with real individual...