The Way Back
The Way Back

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In 1939, three men attempt to flee communist Russia, 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 V... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Way Back:

Ed Harris
Jim Sturgess
Saoirse Ronan
Colin Farrell
Mark Strong
Gustaf Skarsgård

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In 1939, three men attempt to flee communist Russia, 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.

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The Spectator - 10/10 by Deborah RossI had no reason to care. And their spiritual journeys are as predictable as they are pat... It's all voyage at the expense of the voyagers, so lacks any moral power.
Washington Post - 9/10 by Dan KoisThe Way Back diligently catalogs the outrages through which extreme cold, hunger and thirst put the body, and Weir's camera finds the terrible beauty in his actors' chapped lips, windburned cheeks and tenderized feet.
Cinema Writer - 9/10 by Jay Antania solid, resonant meditation on survival, on hope, on the value of life in the face of implacable hostility, portrayed memorably by an excellent cast and [Director] Weir's vast, brutal, awe-inspiring landscapes
Observer - 9/10 by Rex ReedNo one will go away disappointed or indifferent. It's a movie that sticks with you like Elmer's glue.
Newsday - 9/10 by Rafer GuzmanWeir has always loved atmospheric locales and group dynamics, and here he makes the most of both
MovieFreak.com - 9/10 by Sara Michelle FettersMuch like the group it chronicles the movie never relents, never stops and, more importantly, never gives up. It keeps moving forward, forward, forward, refusing to back down or give in no matter what sort of hardship or tragedy pops up along the way.
JoBlo's Movie Emporium - 9/10 by Chris BumbrayAt times it's grueling, and even difficult to watch, but it's a remarkably powerful film.
Rolling Stone - 9/10 by Peter TraversThe director, 66, brings his passion for precision to every frame of the film, refusing to hype or Hollywoodize the detailed richness of the story.
Wall Street Journal - 9/10 by Joe MorgensternMost of those hardships are familiar to movie lovers; that's a reductionist view of a serious and ambitious production, but it is, after all, a movie on a screen. (And a movie with a dreadfully clumsy ending.)
Orlando Weekly - 9/10 by William GossIt's an admirable and sweeping epic about a feat of human survival once thought factual, and the story is no less harrowing now that those facts have been called into question.

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