The Way Back (2010)
Directed by Peter Weir
In 1941 a handful of prisoners escape a Siberian labour camp and walk south past Lake Baikal, across Mongolia and the Gobi Desert, over the Himalayas into India.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Poland≈ 00:01:00Inferred
Janusz is interrogated by the NKVD and sentenced to twenty years.
- 2Labour camp≈ 00:04:00SiberiaStated on screen
In a Siberian camp Janusz plans an escape and breaks out in a snowstorm.
- 3Lake Baikal, Russia≈ 00:30:00Stated on screen
Near Lake Baikal the men meet a Polish orphan girl, Irena.
- 4Soviet–Mongolian border≈ 00:50:00Stated on screen
- 5Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia≈ 00:55:00Inferred
- 6Gobi Desert≈ 01:00:00Stated on screen
- 7Tibet≈ 01:45:00Stated on screen
- 8Northern India, Himalayan foothills≈ 01:55:00Stated on screen
- 9Home≈ 02:05:00PolandInferred
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 15,653 km
- Places
- 8
- Countries
- 5
- Stops
- 9
- Not shown: 10,534 km
- On foot: 5,119 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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