The Way Back (2010)
Actors:
Peter Weir (writer),
Valentin Ganev (miscellaneous crew),
Scott Rudin (producer),
Peter Weir (producer),
Peter Weir (director),
Judy Dickerson (miscellaneous crew),
Guy East (producer),
Mark Strong (actor),
Ed Harris (actor),
Nigel Sinclair (producer),
Colin Farrell (actor),
Hal Yamanouchi (actor),
Valentin Ganev (actor),
Brendan Gunn (miscellaneous crew),
Mario Georgiev (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: In 1941, three men reach India from Tibet, having walked 4000 miles after 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; he knows how to live in the wilds. They escape under cover of a snowstorm: a cynical American, a Russian thug, a comic 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, and moral questions of when to leave someone behind.
Keywords: actor, american, artist, barbed-wire, based-on-memoir, blister, china, coal-mine, compass, confession
Genres:
Adventure,
Drama,
History,
Taglines: Their escape was just the beginning
Quotes:
[first lines]::[in Polish, using English subtitles]::Interrogator: [presents pen to sign confession]::Janusz: No.::Interrogator: Bring in the witness.::Janusz's Wife, 1939: [brought in]::Interrogator: Do you know this man? His name?::Janusz's Wife, 1939: Janusz Wieszczek.::Interrogator: Witness, what's your relationship with this man?::Janusz's Wife, 1939: [crying] I am his wife.::Interrogator: Accused, do you confirm this?::Janusz's Wife, 1939: Yes.::Interrogator: Witness, what do you have to say about the accused?::Janusz's Wife, 1939: [agonizing] From his conversation, I have come to know he is critical of the Party, especially the leader of the Soviet people, Comrade Stalin.::Janusz: What have they done to you?
Mr. Smith: Kindness. That will kill you here.
Mr. Smith: You should be grateful we are here at all.::Valka: Grateful is for dogs.
Janusz: We are not criminals. We are escaping from criminals.
Janusz: Why would an American move to Russia for God sakes?::Irena: The Depression.
Valka: Don't you know what "Stalin" means, funny man? Means man-of-steel. He takes from rich, and gives to poor.::Zoran: Yes, of course he does. Then he takes both of them, and puts them in Gulag for 25 years.
Valka: Prison is okay. Debt is bad. But there are many prisons, they don't find me.::Zoran: What about America?::Valka: Oh, it's not for me, freedom. I wouldn't know what to do with it, I swear to God.
Janusz: [eating snake] Tastes like chicken.::Zoran: Yeah. A big black poisonous chicken with no legs.
Mr. Smith: In the camps, some saw death as freedom.::Janusz: Then why didn't you just kill yourself?::Mr. Smith: Survival was a kind of protest. Being alive was my punishment.::Janusz: Punishment for what?::Mr. Smith: I brought David to Russia.::Janusz: And now no one can forgive you. And you can't forgive yourself...
Mr. Smith: Kindness. That can kill you here.
Far North (2007)
Actors:
Michelle Yeoh (actress),
Clive Noakes (miscellaneous crew),
Kate Ogborn (miscellaneous crew),
Jo Cameron Brown (miscellaneous crew),
Anders Lexne (miscellaneous crew),
Steve Joberns (miscellaneous crew),
Matt Curtis (miscellaneous crew),
Tessa Ross (producer),
Sean Bean (actor),
Dario Marianelli (composer),
Petter J. Borgli (producer),
Michelle Krusiec (actress),
Bertrand Faivre (producer),
Hengameh Panahi (producer),
Neil Calder (miscellaneous crew),
Genres:
Crime,
Drama,
Romance,
Thriller,
Taglines: In this brutal land, a stranger threatens their survival.
Quotes:
Anja: Will you come with us?
Loki: [Examines the antler] This is very beautiful. She's very talented. We'll be able to trade it for something useful.
Saiva: What will they do if they find you?::Loki: Shoot me.
Andrei: [Holding Saiva and the baby hostage] Lead us to the mainland and we'll let you and the baby live. Mess with me, and I'll skin him alive.::Saiva: She. It's a girl.
Saiva: [Last lines] I love you...
Sotvoreniye Adama (1994)
Actors:
Andrey Sigle (composer),
Anzhelika Nevolina (actress),
Aleksandr Strizhenov (actor),
Ilya Shakunov (actor),
Irina Metlitskaya (actress),
Saulius Balandis (actor),
Vitali Moskalenko (writer),
Sergey Vinogradov (actor),
Yuriy Ovsyanko (actor),
Vladimir Maslov (writer),
Maxim Volodin (miscellaneous crew),
Raisa Lisova (editor),
Yuriy Pavlov (director),
Andzhela Sapunova (costume designer),
Aleksandr Markov (actor),
Plot: On the same day, Andrei's wife Nina asks for a divorce, his colleague Natasha tells him she's attracted to him, he's assigned a new project under the direction of Philip (a well-dressed, authoritative, and even arrogant stranger who keeps touching him), and he fights a gang of homophobes to protect a young gay man, Oleg. The next day, Philip takes Andrei away from the office on an odyssey into a space that is charged with spirituality and homoeroticism. Philip is no businessman, and the disclosure of who he really is forces Andrei into a series of choices that involve Natasha, Nina, belief, and love.
Keywords: androgyny, angel, beach, christian-subtext, closeted-homosexual, co-worker, day-trip, design-firm, disappearance-of-a-knife-wound, faith
Genres:
Drama,
Fantasy,
Mystery,
Romance,