4 real historical locations · India, Mongolia, Russia
Peter Weir's survival film based on the disputed memoir of Slawomir Rawicz, depicting the escape of Polish prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1941 and their 4,000-mile trek through Mongolia, the Gobi Desert, and the Himalayas to British India.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning India, Mongolia, Russia.
A group of prisoners escape a Siberian gulag in 1940 and walk 6,500 kilometres through Mongolia, the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas to reach India — one of hi...
The 2010 film is loosely based on Slavomir Rawicz's memoir 'The Long Walk' (1956), though the true story's authenticity has been disputed. The Soviet gulag system held approximately 1.8 million prisoners in 1941. Poli...
View location →A group of Polish, American, and Russian prisoners escape from a Stalinist labour camp in the frozen Siberian taiga — the beginning of a 4,000-mile walk to f...
The film is inspired by Sławomir Rawicz's memoir 'The Long Walk'. Modern research questions whether the escape happened exactly as described, but mass escapes from Soviet camps did occur.
View location →The escapees cross the Gobi Desert in midsummer heat with almost no water. The contrast with Siberian winter underlines the journey's extraordinary physical ...
The Gobi Desert crossing would have been among the most lethal stages of such a journey, requiring 500+ km across one of the world's harshest environments in summer heat exceeding 45°C.
View location →The survivors cross the Himalayas into British India — the final physical obstacle before freedom. Few who left Siberia are still alive to reach it.
British India represented neutral safety for the escaped Poles and others. The journey of approximately 6,500 km on foot would have taken over a year across some of the world's most extreme terrain.
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