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| Their escape was just the beginning . . . 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 Award nominated Peter Weir comes The Way Bank, a 2011 Oscar nominee for Mack-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. |
