In 1940, seven prisoners escape from the confines of a Russian gulag in Siberia, and set out on a gruelling, 4,500-mile trek across some of the world’s harshest terrain, with little food and few supplies. Their efforts are almost certainly doomed, yet they would rather die as free men than Stalin’s prisoners.
In 1956, Slavomir Rawicz published "The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom", a gripping account of his daring escape from a Russian gulag, and his subsequent journey across Siberia, Mongolia, the Himalayas, and finally to India, where he joined the British army to fight Hitler and Stalin. Director Peter Weir chose it as the follow-up to 2003’s Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World.
