It starred Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess and Ed Harris. In 2010, a film, The Way Back, based on the book, directed by six-time Academy Award-nominee Peter Weir (Master and Commander, The Truman Show, and The Dead Poets Society) was released. First published in 1956, this is one of the greatest true stories of escape, adventure and survival against all odds. Polish cavalry lieutenant Slavomir Rawicz is taken prisoner by Russian liberators. In June 1941, they crossed the trans-Siberian railway and headed south, climbing into Tibet and freedom in British India nine months later, in March 1942, having travelled over four thousand miles on foot through some of the harshest regions in the world, including the Gobi Desert, Tibet and the Himalayas. A brutal and harrowing tale of what men will endure to find freedom. Realising that to remain meant almost certain death, Rawicz, along with six companions, escaped. After a three-month journey in the dead of winter to Siberia, life in a Soviet labour camp meant enduring hunger, extreme cold, untreated wounds and illnesses and facing the daily risk of arbitrary execution. On 19 November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to twenty-five years in a gulag. Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer.
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