---
title: 'The Way Back (2010)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Peter Weir'
released: '2010-09-03'
runtime_minutes: 133
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'War'
countries:
  - 'United Arab Emirates'
  - 'India'
  - 'Poland'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-way-back-2010'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023114/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Way Back (2010)

2010 · 133 min · Drama, War · United Arab Emirates, India, Poland, United States


## Synopsis

The Way Back is a 2010 American survival film directed by Peter Weir, from a screenplay by Weir and Keith Clarke. The film is inspired by The Long Walk (1956), the memoir by former Polish prisoner of war Sławomir Rawicz, who claimed to have escaped from a Soviet Gulag and walked 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to freedom in World War II. The film stars Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, and Saoirse Ronan, with Alexandru Potocean, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Gustaf Skarsgård, Dragoș Bucur and Mark Strong.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Peter Weir](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-weir)
- **Screenplay:** [Peter Weir](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-weir)
- **Producer:** [Peter Weir](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-weir), [Scott Rudin](https://cinepixo.com/people/scott-rudin)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Burkhard Dallwitz](https://cinepixo.com/people/burkhard-dallwitz)
- **Director of Photography:** [Russell Boyd](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-boyd)
- **Editor:** [Lee Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-smith)

## Cast

- [Sebastian Urzendowsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/sebastian-urzendowsky) as Kazik
- [Zahari Baharov](https://cinepixo.com/people/zahari-baharov)
- [Yordan Bikov](https://cinepixo.com/people/yordan-bikov)
- [Colin Farrell](https://cinepixo.com/people/colin-farrell-2) as Valka
- [Ed Harris](https://cinepixo.com/people/ed-harris) as Mr. Smith
- [Mark Strong](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-strong) as Andrei Timofeyevich Khabarov
- [Alexandru Potocean](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexandru-potocean) as Tomasz Horodinsky
- [Jim Sturgess](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-sturgess) as Janusz Wieszczek
- [Haruhiko Yamanouchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/haruhiko-yamanouchi)
- [Gustaf Skarsgård](https://cinepixo.com/people/gustaf-skarsgard) as Andrejs Voss
- [Sally Edwards](https://cinepixo.com/people/sally-edwards)
- [Dragoș Bucur](https://cinepixo.com/people/dragos-bucur) as Zoran
- [Saoirse Ronan](https://cinepixo.com/people/saoirse-ronan) as Irena Zielińska

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