The Way Back
The story of three man who is running for communist Russia and of others who flee with them.
28 May 1985, Berlin, Germany
20 June 1943, Burgas, Bulgaria
31 May 1976, Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland
5 August 1963, London, England, UK
12 August 1980, Bulgaria
12 November 1980, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
18 March 1954, Popovitza, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
20 April 1946, Tokyo, Japan
13 June 1977, Bucharest, Romania
28 November 1950, Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
16 May 1978, London, England, UK
23 March 1949, Sofia, Bulgaria
1 January 1950, Frunze, Kirghiz SSR, USSR
12 April 1994, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
7 April 1956, Ruse, Bulgaria
21 April 1984, Timisoara, Romania
July 24, 2013
The Way Back is an inspiring story that is beautifully photographed and full of interesting and well acted characters.
February 18, 2011
Weir has always loved atmospheric locales and group dynamics, and here he makes the most of both
January 31, 2011
he long stretches between stations make The Way Back an arduous road.
June 30, 2013
Like its characters, this drama plods along but its compelling plot makes it worth seeing.
August 21, 2016
[Peter] Weir is marvelously attuned to the natural world but keeps the focus on the human story while acknowledging the power of the natural world, not hostile so much as inhospitable...
April 12, 2016
The man-versus-the-natural world story is in Weir's wheelhouse, and Harris and Farrell get into a scene-stealing duel. Worth the trek.
February 03, 2011
Eventually the film itself is something of an endurance test, and not as rewarding as it hopes to be. But it's a worthy venture, earnest and well-produced and occasionally gripping.
May 03, 2015
A gorgeously mounted epic that for all its virtues feels maddeningly remote.
February 16, 2013
a solid, resonant meditation on survival, on hope, on the value of life in the face of implacable hostility, portrayed memorably by an excellent cast and [Director] Weir's vast, brutal, awe-inspiring landscapes
January 31, 2011
This is an impressive production and technical feat, but through most of it, I kept thinking about how difficult the filming conditions must have been, and not about the lives of the men in front of me.
June 22, 2013
"The Way Back" is a boring movie. Repetitive, protracted and wearisome. Mostly, though: It's just long.
January 31, 2011
The abiding sensation, at the end, is one not of fulfillment but of exhaustion.
