The Way Back

The Way Back

  • Director: Peter Weir
  • Writer: Slavomir Rawicz,Peter Weir,Keith R. Clarke
  • Countries of origin: United States, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
  • Language: English, Russian, Polish, Tibetan, Mongolian
  • Release date: January 21, 2011
  • Runtime: 2h 13min
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Camino a la libertad
  • "The Way Back" is a feature film directed by Peter Weir and starring Jim Sturgess , Ed Harris , Sersh , Colin Farrell and others. It was released in the United States on January 21, 2011.
    The film tells the story of several soldiers who escaped from the Gulag concentration camp in the former Soviet Union. They went through untold hardships and climbed the Himalayas and finally reached India   .

    Details

    • Release date January 21, 2011
    • Filming locations Vakarel, Bulgaria
    • Production companies Exclusive Films, National Geographic Films, Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ

    Box office

    Budget

    $30,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,701,859

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $1,218,868

    Gross worldwide

    $24,172,201

    Movie reviews

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    • By Lela 2022-04-23 07:02:19

      The road is not in China, why

      Why did China occupy so much of this journey, but it almost passed by? There was very little description, and it did not show the help of Chinese civilians. Of course, China here does not include Tibet (this is what foreigners think), but the expression The help and enthusiasm of the people of Tibet and India for them. I'm wondering if the Celestial Dynasty thinks the content of this film is sensitive and prohibits filming in China. It is estimated that the background of the Great Wall may be...

    • By Ashleigh 2022-04-23 07:02:19

      set your heart free

      The way back at first, I thought it was just like "Prison Break", it was just for "freedom".

      Later, I realized that it was to forgive myself.

      In this movie, I only think about the male protagonist/ mr old man/ girl/ and the villain with the knife

      , the painter/ and the dramatist. I guess it's just for decoration! Mainly, they all have bald heads and similar clothes. I don't get it!

      be the protagonist. The first dinner he came to the concentration camp,...

    • By Providenci 2022-04-23 07:02:19

      road to freedom

      The way back is Peter Weir's latest work, which was just released earlier this year. It tells a shocking and bizarre story: During the Stalin era, political prisoners in Siberian labor camps planned an escape. A group of seven of them managed to escape the camp on a snowy night, fighting a blizzard in the vast expanses of Siberia (and dying a fugitive). The original route plan was to head to Lake Baikal and then all the way south to Mongolia. However, after many hardships and hardships to...

    • By Kamron 2022-04-23 07:02:19

      <The way back>--Every Chinese can't forgive himself.

      This movie has no thrilling scenes, no heart-wrenching suspense, or even an evocative event. But it can make us reflect, let every Chinese reflect.
      Several protagonists in the play use their own Feet on a long march not for
      revolution Myself, maybe she can survive until her gray hair is just waiting for his return.
      Maybe you are like me. After graduation, you received phone calls and QQ chats from classmates and friends. In fact, they didn't want to say hello to me, they just...

    • By Orin 2022-04-23 07:02:19

      the way we walking the way we choose

      How important is belief? He told us to stick to our beliefs to keep us going. It seems that I can understand the thirst for water under the sultry heat, the difficulty of walking on the desert heap, the fatigue of wanting to lie down forever and stop moving forward, the despair of not seeing the destination under the endless walking and difficulty... until I finally reach my destination. All of this is not only based on our beliefs, but behind it is love. When they arrived in Mongolia in the...

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    • By Jada 2022-04-22 07:01:31

      An anti-war work that is flat and has no gunfire and smoke. Although the movie has no climax, it can still move people. The last part about Tibet is very embarrassing, but the overall movie is...

    • By Immanuel 2022-04-22 07:01:31

      History will always have a fair...

    • By Herminio 2022-04-22 07:01:31

      Infinite...

    • By Donna 2022-04-22 07:01:31

      The first half is more exciting. The only heroine is the little sister in Atonement. Because she played the cute bones of the novels I have read, I paid more attention, but I have not seen any of the movies in which she played the first...

    • By Elizabeth 2022-04-22 07:01:31

      For freedom and for...

    Movie plot

    In the early 1940s, the Soviet Union imposed a dictatorship in Poland. The authorities arrested many Polish military officers and government personnel and sent them to concentration camps for "reeducation through labor." There, they suffered inhuman torture and unbearable torture, but also to survive, Janusz ( Jim Sturgess ) , Smith ( Ed Harris ) and five other political prisoners managed to escape from the concentration camp and...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    The filming copyright of the film was initially purchased by actor Lawrence Harvey, but since then the copyright has been changed many times, and finally it was handed over to Peter Weir to start shooting.
    The film is adapted from the memoirs of Polish military officer Slavomir Lavitz. This memoir, titled "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom" (The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom), was published in 1956. It...
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    Creative background

    The Soviet government set up many prisoner-of-war camps and labor camps in its own country and in the occupied countries. The Russian abbreviation of the management department of this labor camp is Gulag. The starting point of the film's story is such a Gulag, which is adapted from the memoirs of Slavomir Lavitz. This memoir chronicles the story of how he was captured by the army in a concentration camp after Poland was occupied by the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Valka: Prison is okay. Debt is bad. But there are many prisons, they don't find me.

      Zoran: What about America?

      Valka: Oh, it's not for me, freedom. I wouldn't know what to do with it, I swear to God.

    • Janusz: [eating snake] Tastes like chicken.

      Zoran: Yeah. A big black poisonous chicken with no legs.

    • Mr. Smith: In the camps, some saw death as freedom.

      Janusz: Then why didn't you just kill yourself?

      Mr. Smith: Survival was a kind of protest. Being alive was my punishment.

      Janusz: Punishment for what?

      Mr. Smith: I brought David to Russia.

      Janusz: And now no one can forgive you. And you can't forgive yourself...