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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

The Way Back
Not another Ewan McGregor bike ride

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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.

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