The Way Back

During World War II, after the Soviet invasion of Poland, young Polish army officer Janusz Wieszczek is held as a prisoner and interrogated by the NKVD. The Soviets, unable to get him to admit that he is a spy, take his wife into custody as well and severely torture her; from her, they extort a statement condemning him. He is sentenced to 20 years in a Gulag labour camp deep in Siberia.