Filmtips: The way back

We have seen The way back, starring Ed Harris, Colin Farrell and Gustav Skarsgård among others. As the film begins, we are thrown into a dirty and cold labour camp in Siberia during World War II. Most of the prisoners are sentenced to ten or twenty years of hard labour and some of them decide that they would rather die as free men than break down in captivity.

Hundreds of miles across Siberia

Then the incredible trek begins; hundreds of miles through biting Siberian winter, scorching hot desert and the dizzying heights of the Himalayas. The landscapes are beautiful, the nature harsh and the will to survive fascinating. The fact that the story is allegedly based on a real event only adds to the emotion, although it is perhaps questionable how much of the real story remains.