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If you’re going to base a movie on an amazing true story, it would seem essential that the amazing story actually be true, writes Kurt Loder. This is unfortunately not the case with The Way Back, a film drawn from a 1956 book by Slawomir Rawicz, a Polish army officer who claimed to have escaped from a Soviet labor camp in 194 and walked 4000 miles to freedom through Mongolia and Tibet and over the Himalayas to British India. But as director Peter Weir acknowledges, Rawicz’s book may not be completely true, it's probably accurate in its harrowing details, and in any case constitutes a great adventure.

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