“Their escape was just the beginning.”
The Way Back
7.0
1,775 votes·2010
·2h 13m
·MovieDramaAdventureHistory
Overview
A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
Commercial Verdict
Flop
Revenue vs Budget0.8x
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Lost money at the box office
Keywords
escapeworld war iisoviet unionanti-communismindiagulagamericanthugbased on memoir or autobiographycommunismpolitical repressionussr
Cast
Ed Harris
Mr. Smith
Jim Sturgess
Janusz Wieszczek
Saoirse Ronan
Irena Zielińska
Colin Farrell
Valka
Mark Strong
Andrei Khabarov
Gustaf Skarsgård
Andrejs Voss
Dejan Angelov
Andrei
Dragoș Bucur
Zoran
Sally Brunski
Janusz's Wife, 1939
Alexandru Potocean
Tomasz Horodinsky
Sebastian Urzendowsky
Kazik
Zahari Baharov
Interrogator
Ihor Hniezdilov
Bohdan
Stanislav Pishtalov
Commandant
Mariy Grigorov
Lazar
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