The Way Back

Name: The Way Back
Genre: Drama, Adventure, History
Released: 2010-11-22
Duration: 133 min
Rating: 7

★ 7,0 /10 (1,823 Votes)

2010 EN 133 min

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.

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Release date

22/11/2010

Votes

1,823

Popularity

9.7

Their escape was just the beginning.

Genres

Drama Adventure History

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

133 min

Budget

$30,000,000

Revenue

$24,172,201

Website

thewaybackthemovie.com

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

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Mariy Grigorov

Lazar

Nikolay Stanoev

Yuri

Stefan Shterev

Cook

Yordan Bikov

Garbage Eater #1

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Ruslan Kupenov

Garbage Eater #2

Nikolay Mutafchiev

Guard #1

Valentin Ganev

Guard #2

Anton Trendafilov

Steam Man

Pearce Quigley

The Professor

Sattar Dikambayev

Mongolian Horseman

Hal Yamanouchi

Official

Meglena Karalambova

Janusz's Wife, 1989

Irinei Konstantinov

Janusz, 1989

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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.

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***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 sugg…

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