The Way Back

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-01-21

Languages:

English, Russian, Polish

Countries:

USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland

Runtime:

133 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (81379 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Weir

Genres:

Adventure Drama History

Cast:

Dragos Bucur Colin Farrell Ed Harris Alexandru Potocean

Writer:

Keith R. Clarke (screenplay)

Slavomir Rawicz (novel)

Peter Weir (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In 1941, three men reach India from Tibet, having walked 4000 miles after escaping a Siberian gulag. The film tells their story and that of four others who escaped with them and a teenage girl who joins them in flight. The group's natural leader is Janusz, a Pole condemned by accusations secured by torturing his wife; he knows how to live in the wilds. They escape under cover of a snowstorm: a cynical American, a Russian thug, a comic accountant, a pastry chef who draws, a priest, and a Pole with night blindness. They face freezing nights, lack of food and water, mosquitoes, an endless desert, the Himalayas, and moral questions of when to leave someone behind.

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