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Loading ...Category: Drama
Year: 2010
Rating: 7.7/10 ()
Director: Peter Weir
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 133 min
Release Date: 25 November 2010 (Argentina) See more »
Taglines: Their escape was just the beginning
Writers: Keith R. Clarke (screenplay), Slavomir Rawicz (novel), and 1 more credit »
Movie Storyline
Siberian gulag escapees walk 4000 miles overland to freedom in India.
Cast:
Dragos Bucur
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Zoran
Colin Farrell
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Valka
Ed Harris
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Mr. Smith
Alexandru Potocean
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Tomasz
Saoirse Ronan
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Irena
Gustaf Skarsgård
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Voss
Mark Strong
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Khabarov
Jim Sturgess
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Janusz
Sebastian Urzendowsky
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Kazik
Zahary Baharov
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Interrogator
Sally Edwards
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Janusz's Wife, 1939
Igor Gnezdilov
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Bohdan
Dejan Angelov
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Andrei
Stanislav Pishtalov
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Commandant
Mariy Grigorov
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Lazar
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Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Color: Color
Filming Locations: Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Trivia:
Saoirse Ronan (Irena) celebrated her 16th birthday on the set of this shoot.
User Review:
Escape tale by a man who never did it
, rated: 7/10
There are lots of nice ideas - more in suggestion than in the
realisation by this film. Committed to a Gulag in deepest Siberia -
apparently Nature will take its toll upon the prisoners rather than the
conditions in the camp. This early statement strikes a wrong note right
at the beginning and, unfortunately, this error is replicated for other
overblown assertions in setting up the tale. The uneasy relationship
between the escapees throughout their 4,000 mile journey also strikes a
false note. Visually, there are some nice scenes but it doesn't make up
for the thinness of the characterisations, the brevity of the detail in
the survival skills necessary for this trek and the inevitable bonding
that occurs - if only for the duration of the enforced comradeship. A
tolerable film experience but not a classic.
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