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Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India.

DIRECTOR
  • Peter Weir
WRITERS
STUDIOS
  • Exclusive Films
  • National Geographic Films
  • Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ
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In 1939, the Polish military Janusz is accused of espionage by the Soviet Union. His wife is tortured and Janusz is sentenced to twenty years imprisoned in a Siberian gulag. When Janusz is assigned to work in the mines, he feels that the only chance to survive is escaping from the camp. He plots to break out with the bitter American Mr. Smith; the funny Yugoslavian accountant Zoran; the Polish chef and aspirant artist Tomasz Horodynsky; the Polish Kazik that has night blindness; and the Latvian priest Voss and is forced to admit the Russian criminal Valka in the group of escapees. Along their journey, they face snow storm, mosquitoes, hunger, the desert, sand storm, thirsty and they meet the fugitive teenager Irena that joins the group.

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IMDB Score
7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes Score
74%