An inspiring drama directed by Peter Weir, based on a real-life story recounted by Captain Rupert Mayne, a British intelligence officer in Calcutta, who in 1942 interviewed three emaciated men, who have escaped from a Soviet gulag and walked across Siberian forests, Mongolian deserts and Himalayan mountains. The same story has been told in the 1956 bestselling novel "The Long Walk" by Slawomir Rawicz (who falsely claimed that it happened to him).
October 10, 2010
The Way Back (2010) ****
An inspiring drama directed by Peter Weir, based on a real-life story recounted by Captain Rupert Mayne, a British intelligence officer in Calcutta, who in 1942 interviewed three emaciated men, who have escaped from a Soviet gulag and walked across Siberian forests, Mongolian deserts and Himalayan mountains. The same story has been told in the 1956 bestselling novel "The Long Walk" by Slawomir Rawicz (who falsely claimed that it happened to him).
