The Way Back

[yoco]

Release Date: December 29, 2010 (LA)
Studio: Exclusive Media Group, Wrekin Hill Entertainment
Director: Peter Weir
Screenwriter: Peter Weir
Starring: Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan
Genre: Drama

"The Way Back" is the fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940. It is based on several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book "The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom." The book is Rawicz's account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India.

[slikrapid]

The Way Back" is the fact-based story

no, its fraudulent fiction, shamelessly claiming to be true, made up by a russian-jewish lieutenant who got released from prison due to a documented amnesty and not by escape

as can be seen from the trailer the story has been augmented to be even more unbelievable (storms, looters, oases, himalayas and whatnot)

for details about the hoax from people who know something about climbing:

http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=58559

also, gulags were mostly populated by political prisoners and ordinary people (regime critics or falsely accused ones) and they were labor camps, certainly not the worlds 'most brutal' prison system (this title would suit those prisons that are hidden/unrevealed/secret, with no other purpose than torture), furthermore seems the death toll in gulags has been quite exaggerated, a nasty habit of extremist/biased/winner-side 'historians' (for a well documented example of such a deception see the 'revisionists' site regarding the h0l0caust)

[yoco]