Prisoners from a Siberian labor camp escape and make their way through forests, deserts, snowy mountains, villages with hostile inhabitants and endless arid featureless land. They eventually find their way to India.
Colin Farrell plays a criminal who was locked up for a murder ( i think) and another escapee is Ed Harris. and then there were several Eastern European actors. All the escapees had thick accents and since they always seemed to be whispering - I missed a lot of dialogue; not that it made a difference.
we certainly enjoyed it enough to keep watching their endless walk but a major problem was the lack of anything interesting; a few of them died, they went hungry, they lacked water, there were some hallucinations and a lot of temporary collapses but no tension was ever built up. And none of them ever looked like they went hungry. Ed Harris achieved the best cachectic look but the others stayed fleshed out with bright alert eyes. In fact, at one point as they were crossing into Tibet they came upon a river and just laid in it to cool off and several of them had pudgy bellies and you couldn't see their ribs.
Bill gave it an 8; my rating was a 6.
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