Peter Weir’s The Way Back marks the director’s first film in what will be eight years once it’s released on January 21, 2011. His last film was Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and before that it was the likes of The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society and Witness, which means a film from Weir is one to look out for.
The Way Back is expected to get a short limited Oscar qualifying release on December 29 where the film hopes to make a splash after some good reviews out of Telluride in September.
The story was inspired by Slavomir Rawicz’s acclaimed novel, “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom” as well as other real life accounts and tells the adventure story chronicling the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic life affirming journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.
Leading the cast are Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan and Mark Strong.
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