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 others who escaped with them and a teenage girl who joins them in flight. The group’s natural leader is Janusz, a Pole condemned by accusations 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 questions of when to leave someone behind.
Release Date: 21 January 2011Runtime: 133 min
Stars:
- Alexandru Potocean
- Colin Farrell
- Dejan Angelov
- Dragos Bucur
- Ed Harris
- Gustaf Skarsgård
- Igor Gnezdilov
- Jim Sturgess
- Mariy Grigorov
- Mark Strong
- Sally E. Brunski
- Saoirse Ronan
- Sebastian Urzendowsky
- Stanislav Pishtalov
- Zachary Baharov
Director: Peter Weir
