During world war two a disparate group of prisoners escape from a gulag and walk to safety across Siberia, the Gobi desert and the Himalaya.
Even an average Peter Weir movie is still very very good. He is sometimes a cold director, his movies often missing a “spark”, a driving force. But he is extremely competent, with a sense of pace that is missing from most of his colleagues. The main problem is that the characters take a while to come through. While they are still in the prison they tend to fade away in the background and only during the long escape they slowly stand out as individual, but when they do the story finds it grove and became genuinely gripping.
Probably the story is not true but this is not really important. This is a story that works so well by itself that even if it’s not true it should be because it talks about some of the fundamental realities of being human.
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