Peter Weir’s second film of the 21st century follows his bombastic nautical epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and is based on the true story of a band of prisoners escaping a Siberian labour camp in 1940.

The collected stills from The Way Back epitomise all that is great about Weir’s cinematic vision; the desperate and the desolate in an uneasy harmony as the journeys taken are of unrelenting discovery.

The always excellent Mark Strong is joined by Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess and, fresh from Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, Saoirse Ronan in front of the camera and Weir has been fortunate to draw together a talented cast, and his beautiful cinematography is in evidence below.

The images are available below, and come to us from Quiet Earth.



The Way Back will be released sometime in 2010.