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Synopsis: In 1941, three men attempt to flee communist Russia, escaping a Siberian gulag. The film tells their story and that of four others who escaped with them and a teenage girl who joins them in flight. The group's natural leader is Janusz, a Pole condemned by accusations secured by torturing his wife, spent much of his youth outdoors, and knows how to live in the wild. They escape under cover of a snowstorm: a cynical American, a Russian thug, a comedic accountant, a pastry chef who draws, a priest, and a Pole with night blindness. They face freezing nights, lack of food and water, mosquitoes, an endless desert, the Himalayas, as well as many moral and ethical dilemmas throughout the journey towards freedom.
Director(s): Peter Weir
Production: Newmarket Films LLC
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
PG-13
Year:
2010
133 min
$2,500,000
994 Views


I'm counting on you|carrying me.

Khabarov.

Khabarov, come.

What?

Come with me. Now.

What is it? What? What?

Come. Look at this.

Look at this.

We can go.|We can go tonight.

The storm will cover|our tracks.

No, no, no. What are you talking about?|It's a passing storm!

No, it's enough.

Janusz, that is impossible.

We need... we need|detailed preparation,

we need plans,|we need maps.

No, no, the timing|will never be perfect.

Look, they won't expect it now.

Are you crazy?

What about the distances?

It's, it's a thousand kilometers,|and we need food.

Plenty of food.

But, but we have food.|You have food.

Look, the American|is with us.

We've been trading,|just like you said.

How long will that last?

Look, I've spent half my life

In the woods and mountains.

We can live off the land.

You don't understand.|You are too young.

It cannot be done.

What else is there?

You hear me?

To stay here and die?

It cannot be done.

Andrei! How do we|get through that wire?

I don't know|what you are talking about.

Your friend Lazar...

I mean, he knows, doesn't he?

You told me that.

Piss off now.

You can't see, can you?

Please don't leave me behind.

Promise me, Andrejs.

I can hold onto|your shoulder by night.

I can... I can see shapes.

By day I can see just fine.

I won't hold you up.

Please don't tell the others.

In here, I die.

Swiss.

There are no secrets here.

What do you want?

The game goes against me.

Small debt, they take fingers.

Big debt, they take head.

Me, big debt.

But I never gambie my Wolf.

In forest, you need knife,

and I need miracle.|Get me out of here.

Come on! Come on!

Look! keep going.|Keep going!

We must keep going!|Get up!

Get up!

Activity,|or we die right now.

You know|how fast the dogs are.

Run, damn you!

Mister, come on,|look at me.

Is it time for me|to carry you?

Come on. Come on.

Come on!

Janusz, we can't see anything!

The snow is blinding us!

Janusz!

I need your knife!

Give me the knife!

Your knife!

Janusz, we must take shelter!

We can't go on!

Don't you see?|This is perfect!

They'll never find us like this.

Never!

You stare at me|like snake at rabbit.

He teach me English.

Speak good?

Bread for words,|wasn't it, cowboy?

How far have we come?

Maybe 20, 30 kilometers.

That's all?

Less, if we've been|going in circles

like chicken without head.

All right,|let's see what we have.

Everyone, come on.

We share everything.

And you?

What?

Do you have?

And that coat.

It's not your coat.

That is Khabarov's coat.

Yes, he gave me.

And...

See?

He was going to inform.

Don't worry. I talk to him.

Everything okay.

You've made a bargain|with the devil.

You realize that?

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