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The Way Back

Name: The Way Back
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Released: 2010
Duration: 133 min

2010 · Released · 133 min

During World War II, after the Soviet invasion of Poland, young Polish army officer Janusz Wieszczek (Jim Sturgess) is held as a POW and interrogated by the NKVD. The Soviets, unable to get him to admit that he is a spy, take his wife into custody; from her they extort a statement condemning him. He is sentenced to 20 years in a Gulag labour camp deep in Siberia.

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