The Way Back
Their escape was just the beginning.
Overview
A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
- Budget
- $30,000,000
- Revenue
- $24,172,201
- Production
- Exclusive Media, National Geographic Films, Image Nation Abu Dhabi, Exclusive Films, Monolith Films
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Cast
Ed Harris
Mr. Smith
Jim Sturgess
Janusz Wieszczek
Saoirse Ronan
Irena Zielińska
Colin Farrell
Valka
Mark Strong
Andrei Khabarov
Gustaf Skarsgård
Andrejs Voss
Dejan Angelov
Andrei
Dragoș Bucur
Zoran
Sally Brunski
Janusz's Wife, 1939
Alexandru Potocean
Tomasz Horodinsky
Sebastian Urzendowsky
Kazik
Zahari Baharov
Interrogator
Ihor Hniezdilov
Bohdan
Stanislav Pishtalov
Commandant
Nikolay Stanoev
Yuri
Stefan Shterev
Cook
Yordan Bikov
Garbage Eater #1
Nikolay Mutafchiev
Guard #1
Valentin Ganev
Guard #2
Anton Trendafilov
Steam Man
Crew
- Director
- Peter Weir
- Writers
- Peter Weir,Keith R. Clarke
- Producers
- Joni Levin,Nigel Sinclair,Peter Weir,Keith Clark
- Cinematography
- Russell Boyd
- Composer
- Burkhard von Dallwitz
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User Reviews from TMDB
Andres Gomez
November 26, 2013
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.
Wuchak
October 23, 2019
***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 gul…