Siberian gulag escapees walk 4000 miles overland to freedom in India.
In 1941, three men reach India from Tibet, having walked 4000 miles after escaping a Siberian gulag. The film tells their story and that of four other who escaped with them and a teenage girl who join them in flight. The group's natural leader is Janusz, a Pole condemned by accusation secured by torturing his wife; he knows how to live in the wilds. They escape under cover of a snowstorm: a cynical American, a Russian thug, a comic accountant, a pastry chef who draws, a priest, and a Pole with night blindness. They face freezing nights, lack of food and water, mosquitoes, an endless desert, the Himalayas, and moral question of when to leave someone behind. the Peter Weir, Peter Weir, the new work" back the way "(the way Back) With the addition of an actor, the prospect of becoming clear. A few days ago, also announced several joined Cast: Colin Farrell (Collin Farrell), Ed Harris (Ed Harris), Jim Lancaster Vegas (Jim Sturgess,) and Xier Sha Lo, Nancy (Saoirse Ronan). This piece of the original screenplay by Peter Weir adaptation of Slavonia Vladimir Ravitz Slavomir Rawicz long road: search for the true story of freedom "(The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom) from. The background of the times in 1942, talking about the stories of some of the soldiers planned to flee before the concentration camps of the Gulag. Colin Farrell will play a Russian tough guy covered in tattoos, Harris plays an American, Manchester Vegas to play a Polish prisoner, Luo Nancy 's role is unknown, but also hard to guess is what kind of role, she will be in front of three people meet in the way of escape. The film will begin shooting in Bulgaria in March 2009, it will be Peter Weir, following six years ago, "Master and Commander" (Master and Commander,) after the first film.