From the director of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', 'Gallipoli', 'Witness', 'Dead Poet's Society', 'The Truman Show' and 'Master and Commander:The Far Side of the World', the six-time Academy Academy nominated Peter Weir comes 'The Way Back', a 2011 Oscar nominee for Make-up. With a night time blizzard as cover, seven prisoners caught up in Stalin's Reign of Terror escape a Soviet Gulag in 1940. With little food or equipment, and no certainty of their location or intended direction, they embark on a journey that will present unimaginable hardship and drama. Joined by a 14-year old orphan girl they struggle through a treacherous journey that will take them across Siberia, the Gobi Desert and over the Himalayas - thousands of miles of hostile terrain en-route to India and freedom. Starring Jim Sturgess ('Across the Universe', '50 Dead Men Walking'), Colin Farrell ('In Bruges', 'Pride and Glory'), 4 time Oscar nominee Ed Harris, Mark Strong ('Robin Hood', 'Sherlock Holmes') and Saoirse Ronan, a 2008 Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee for 'Atonement'.
