Top billed cast

1. 

   Ed Harris

   Mr. Smith

2. 

   Jim Sturgess

   Janusz Wieszczek

3. 

   Saoirse Ronan

   Irena Zielińska

4. 

   Colin Farrell

   Valka

5. 

   Mark Strong

   Andrei Khabarov

6. 

   Gustaf Skarsgård

   Andrejs Voss

7. 

   Dejan Angelov

   Andrei

8. 

   Dragoș Bucur

   Zoran

9. 

   Sally Brunski

   Janusz's Wife, 1939

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on 2019-10-23

***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...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$30,000,000.00

Revenue
$24,172,201.00

Keywords

• escape
• world war ii
• soviet union
• anti-communism
• india
• gulag
• american
• thug
• based on memoir or autobiography
• communism
• political repression
• ussr