With Oscar buzz already surrounding the feature, the official trailer for Peter Weir’s latest ‘The Way Back’ has been released. The film stars Irish actors Colin Farrell (Phonebooth, Ondine) and Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones) alongside Ed Harris (A Beautiful Mind), Jim Sturgess (21) and Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes).
Partly inspired by Slavomir Rawicz's novel ‘The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom’ the story follows the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India.
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Peter Weir’s previous credits include ‘Master & Commander’, ‘The Truman Show’ and ‘Dead Poets Society’.
The drama is due for release in North America on 21 January 2011.
