Synopsis
At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.
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Cast
- Ed HarrisMr. Smith
- Jim SturgessJanusz Wieszczek
- Saoirse RonanIrena Zielińska
- Colin FarrellValka
- Mark StrongAndrei Khabarov
- Gustaf SkarsgårdAndrejs Voss
- Dejan AngelovAndrei
- Dragos BucurZoran
- Sally BrunskiJanusz's Wife, 1939
- Alexandru PotoceanTomasz Horodinsky
Recommendations
- 90
Boxoffice Magazine
A grueling, stunningly photographed story. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
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
Chicago Sun-Times
There is an irony here. The film exhibits an admirable determination to do justice to a real story, but the story's not real. - 60
Empire
Weir couldn't make a boring film if his life depended on it, and for any other director The Way Back would be laudable. It's good, but from this director we have come to expect great. - 60
Los Angeles Times
In its best moments is as big as a movie can be, as big as life itself. - 60
Time Out
The Way Back then takes its time, creeping through gorgeous locations in Bulgaria, Morocco and Pakistan, and basically feeling like a two-hour-plus version of the desert scene from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
