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FILM DETAILS | | Certificate 12A |  | Cast Colin Farrell Ed Harris Jim Sturgess Saoirse Ronan Dragos Bucur Alexandru Potocean |  | Directors Peter Weir |  | Screenwriters Keith R. Clarke Peter Weir |  | Running Time 133 minutes |
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The Way Back Not another Ewan McGregor bike ride

Plot In 1940, seven prisoners escape from the confines of a Russian gulag in Siberia, and set out on a gruelling, 4,500-mile trek across some of the world’s harshest terrain, with little food and few supplies. Their efforts are almost certainly doomed, yet they would rather die as free men than Stalin’s prisoners. Verdict 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.
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