ROBERT SIEGEL, Host:
Bob Mondello says it's about trading the horrors of a prison camp for the horrors of a trek across the cruelest landscape on Earth.
BOB MONDELLO: Unidentified Man #1 (Actor): (As character) (Speaking foreign language).
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE WAY BACK")
MONDELLO: Unidentified Man #2 (Actor): (As character) We can follow the edge of the lake here.
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SIEGEL: Unidentified Man #6 (Actor): (As character) They won't all survive. But they will die free men.
MONDELLO: Unidentified Man #7 (Actor): (As character) Come on. Keep going. We must keep going. We must. Get up, or we die right now.
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MONDELLO: I'm Bob Mondello.