Peter Weir after the NY premiere of his new movie "The Way Back" at Lincoln Center talks to the Siberia deportations survivors Lunia and Anthony Chroscielewski.
"The Way Back" is very powerful,deeply moving and extraordinary movie based on true story about an escape from Siberia concentration camp with excellent performances by Jim Sturgess Ed Harris, Collin Farell and Saoirse Ronan.
Jim Sturgess (Janusz) Sturgess has sustained almost a decade of roles in British productions, mostly telefilms, including I'm Frank Morgan (2000), Hawk (2001) and the three installments of The Quest series. In 2007, he made his big break in Julie Taymor's musical Across the Universe, portraying Jude Feeny, a paternally-shorn young man who travels to the U.S. amid the raging throes of the late '60s and falls in love with sheltered American teenager, Lucy, played by Evan Rachel Wood. In 2008, he appeared in the historical drama The Other Boleyn Girl in the supporting role of George Boleyn opposite Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and Eric Bana. He also starred in 21 as the male lead Ben Campbell, a movie about five MIT students, who, by counting cards, take Las Vegas casinos for millions. Sturgess' co-stars in 21 include Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne. He played Gavin Kossef in 2009's Crossing Over, appearing with Hollywood greats Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta and Ashley Judd. Set in Los Angeles, the storyline revolves around immigrants from different countries and backgrounds who share a common bond in desperately trying to gain legal status. Also in 2009, he starred in Kari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking loosely based on the best-selling true story book by Martin McGartland about a young Irishman recruited by the British police to infiltrate and spy on the Irish Republican Army and who saved about 50 innocent lives in the process.
End of an Era. Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn 2011
Peter Weir after the NY premiere of his new movie "The Way Back" at Lincoln Center talks to the Siberia deportations survivors Lunia and Anthony Chroscielewski.
