The Way Back

(2010)

★ 7 IMDb · 1,815 votes

Genres: Drama, Adventure, History

Year: 2010

Runtime: 133 мин

Country: Poland, United Arab Emirates

Director: Питер Уир

Cast: Эд Харрис, Джим Стёрджесс, Сирша Ронан, Колин Фаррелл, Марк Стронг, Густаф Скарсгард, Dejan Angelov, Драгош Букур, Sally Brunski, Alexandru Potocean

Plot

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.

In 1940, three men attempt to flee the Soviet Union, escaping a Siberian gulag. This movie tells their story and that of four others who escaped with them and a teenage girl, Irena Zielinska, who joins them in flight. The group's natural leader is Janusz Weiszczek, a Pole condemned by accusations secured by torturing his wife, spent much of his youth outdoors, and knows how to live in the wild. They escape under cover of a snowstorm: cynical American Mr. Smith, Russian thug Valka, comedic accountant Zoran, pastry chef Tomasz Horodinsky, who draws, Priest Andrejs Voss, and Polish Kazik, who suffers from night blindness. They face freezing nights, lack of food and water, mosquitoes, an endless desert, the Himalayas, as well as many moral and ethical dilemmas throughout the journey towards freedom.