Escaping Totalitarianism Is a Lot of Work

Do you like dramatic period pieces? Preferably dealing with geopolitics and the rise of totalitarianism in the early 20th century? With great scenery and swelling film scores? Then we should be friends, and you should watch The Way Back, a movie about a group of prisoners of war escaping a Soviet gulag in Siberia, based on the book one of them wrote.