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Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, and Alexandru Potocean in The Way Back (2010)

Jim Sturgess: Janusz

The Way Back

Jim Sturgess credited as playing...

Janusz

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Quotes6

  • Janusz: We are not criminals. We are escaping from criminals.
  • [first lines]
  • [in Polish, using English subtitles]
  • Interrogator: [presents pen to sign confession]
  • Janusz: No.
  • Interrogator: Bring in the witness.
  • Janusz's Wife, 1939: [brought in]
  • Interrogator: Do you know this man? His name?
  • Janusz's Wife, 1939: Janusz Wieszczek.
  • Interrogator: Witness, what's your relationship with this man?
  • Janusz's Wife, 1939: [crying] I am his wife.
  • Interrogator: Accused, do you confirm this?
  • Janusz's Wife, 1939: Yes.
  • Interrogator: Witness, what do you have to say about the accused?
  • Janusz's Wife, 1939: [agonizing] From his conversation, I have come to know he is critical of the Party, especially the leader of the Soviet people, Comrade Stalin.
  • Janusz: What have they done to you?
  • Mr. Smith: In the camps, some saw death as freedom.
  • Janusz: Then why didn't you just kill yourself?
  • Mr. Smith: Survival was a kind of protest. Being alive was my punishment.
  • Janusz: Punishment for what?
  • Mr. Smith: I brought David to Russia.
  • Janusz: And now no one can forgive you. And you can't forgive yourself...
  • Janusz: [eating snake] Tastes like chicken.
  • Zoran: Yeah. A big black poisonous chicken with no legs.
  • Janusz: Why would an American move to Russia for God sakes?
  • Irena: The Depression.
  • [last lines]
  • Man: Where have you come from?
  • Janusz: Siberia.
  • Man: Siberia?
  • Religious man: [speaks to crowd in unknown language]
  • Man: And how did you come, sir?
  • Janusz: We walked.
  • Man: Walked?
  • [crowd noise]

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