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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.
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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...
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