Storyline
Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film details their perilous & uncertain journey to freedom, as they cross deserts, mountains, & several nations.
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Cast
Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Mark Strong, Jim Sturgess, Nikolay Stanoev, Anton Trendafilov, Stanislav Pishtalov, Saoirse Ronan, Haruhiko Yamanouchi, Pearce Quigley, Valentin Ganev, Ruslan Kupenov, Dejan Angelov, Dragoș Bucur, Alexandru Potocean, Gustaf Skarsgård, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Zachary Baharov, Sally Brunski, Igor Gnezdilov, Mariy Grigorov, Stefan Shterev, Yordan Bikov, Nikolay Mutafchiev, Sattar Dikambayev, Meglena Karalambova, Irinei Konstantinov
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Reviews
90
Boxoffice Magazine
A grueling, stunningly photographed story.
80
Beyond its visual splendors, however, the film achieves searing moral power.
75
Orlando Sentinel
An entertaining old-fashioned prison escape movie with a touch of the epic about it.
70
Movieline
Weir's artisan's sureness grants a bewitching calm - his trademark ambience - to this harrowing tale.
63
There is an irony here. The film exhibits an admirable determination to do justice to a real story, but the story's not real.
