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The Way Back (I) (2010)
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Ratings: 7.3/10 from 37,578 users
Metascore:
66/100
Reviews: 115 user | 187 critic | 33 from Metacritic.com Siberian gulag escapees walk 4000 miles overland to freedom in India. Director:Peter Weir |
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Alexandru Potocean | ... |
Tomasz
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Sebastian Urzendowsky | ... |
Kazik
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Zoran
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| Zahary Baharov | ... |
Interrogator
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Sally Edwards | ... |
Janusz's Wife, 1939
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Igor Gnezdilov | ... |
Bohdan
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Andrei
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Stanislav Pishtalov | ... |
Commandant
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Mariy Grigorov | ... |
Lazar
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In 1941, three men reach India from Tibet, having walked 4000 miles after escaping a Siberian gulag. The film tells their story and that of four others who escaped with them and a teenage girl who joins them in flight. The group's natural leader is Janusz, a Pole condemned by accusations secured by torturing his wife; he knows how to live in the wilds. They escape under cover of a snowstorm: a cynical American, a Russian thug, a comic accountant, a pastry chef who draws, a priest, and a Pole with night blindness. They face freezing nights, lack of food and water, mosquitoes, an endless desert, the Himalayas, and moral questions of when to leave someone behind. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Their escape was just the beginningMotion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for violent content, depiction of physical hardships, a nude image and brief strong language See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Niepokonani See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
£1,327,650 (UK) (2 January 2011) (254 Screens)Gross:
$2,636,950 (USA) (13 February 2011)Company Credits
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Dolby DigitalAspect Ratio:
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[in Polish, using English subtitles]
Interrogator: [presents pen to sign confession]
Janusz: No.
Interrogator: Bring in the witness.
Janusz's Wife, 1939: [brought in]
Interrogator: Do you know this man? His name?
Janusz's Wife, 1939: Janusz Wieszczek.
Interrogator: Witness, what's your relationship with this man?
Janusz's Wife, 1939: [crying] I am his wife.
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The film is based on a memoir by Slavomir Rawicz depicting his escape from a Siberian gulag and subsequent 4000-mile walk to freedom in India. Incredibly popular, it sold over 500,000 copies and is credited with inspiring many explorers. However, in 2006 the BBC unearthed records (including some written by Rawicz himself) that showed he had been released by the USSR in 1942. In 2009 another former Polish soldier, Witold Glinski, claimed that the book was really an account of his own escape. However this claim too has been seriously challenged. See more »Goofs
Errors in geography: When they notice Janusz has left the Tibetan monastery and they call for him on the mountain ridge, K2 appears in the background, which is in the Karakorum mountains, far away from where the action rolls, near the Tibetan border with Nepal. See more »Quotes
[first lines][in Polish, using English subtitles]
Interrogator: [presents pen to sign confession]
Janusz: No.
Interrogator: Bring in the witness.
Janusz's Wife, 1939: [brought in]
Interrogator: Do you know this man? His name?
Janusz's Wife, 1939: Janusz Wieszczek.
Interrogator: Witness, what's your relationship with this man?
Janusz's Wife, 1939: [crying] I am his wife.
[...]
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