The Way Back

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    • True story depicting the escape soldiers in 1940s
    • Writer/Director: Peter Weir
    • Production will begin in March 2009
    • Shot in Bulgaria
  • Production will begin in March 2009 for a film based on the true story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in the 1940s.Variety: Peter Weir Find His Way Back (October 16, 2008) Peter Weir wrote the script and will also direct with filming to be begin in Bulgaria.Cinematical: Peter Weir Picks His Next Project (October 17, 2008)
  • Background Information

    Peter Weir chose the book The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz as his main source for the script. Rawicz's book is a first hand version of his capture by the Red Army in 1939 and his dangerous trek to freedom through the arctic, desert and mountains.Variety: Peter Weir Find His Way Back (October 16, 2008)
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