| The Way Back | |
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| 1 Nomination | |
| Year | 2010 |
| Director | Peter Weir |
| Writer | Peter Weir, Keith Clarke |
| Starring | Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan |
| 83rd Academy Awards | |
The Way Back is a 2010 drama film directed by Peter Weir from a screenplay also by Weir and Keith Clarke, inspired by "The Long Walk" (1955), a book by Sławomir Rawicz, a Polish POW in the Soviet Gulag. It stars Jim Sturgess as Janusz, Colin Farrell as Valka, Ed Harris as Mr. Smith, and Saoirse Ronan as Irena.
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A fact-based story centered on soldiers who escaped from a Siberian gulag 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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