creditsdirectorpeter weircast jim sturgess ed harris colin farrellindian release date march 4 2011synopsiswith a night time blizzard as cover seven prisoners caught up in stalins reign of terror escape a soviet gulag in 1940 they are now free men and almost certainly dead menfor their impending trek to safety defies any reasonable chance of success and the landscape they must cross is unforgiving with little food or equipment and no certainty of their location or intended direction they embark on a journey that will present unimaginable hardship and drama driven by base animal instinctssurvival and fearwhile relying on evolved human traitscompassion and trustthe group endures transformative experiences that are profound and abysmal anguished and ecstatic all the while they abide by one unceasing mandate keep moving keep moving keep moving they travel across four seasons 12 months and some 10000 kilometers seeing how their behaviour and personalities are affected by such harsh circumstances selfreliance is a requisite in the gulag but on this trek the men will have to depend on each other and break down the walls each has built around himself if any are to make it through alivefollow us on twitter for more stories