The Way Back Creative background

The Soviet government set up many prisoner-of-war camps and labor camps in its own country and in the occupied countries. The Russian abbreviation of the management department of this labor camp is Gulag. The starting point of the film's story is such a Gulag, which is adapted from the memoirs of Slavomir Lavitz. This memoir chronicles the story of how he was captured by the army in a concentration camp after Poland was occupied by the Soviet Union, and then managed to escape with a few of his companions. In 1956, Lavitz, who escaped from the dead, dictated this memoir called "The Long Road ." In 2006, the BBC produced a documentary about Lavitz and his "journey", hoping to find some evidence of the real existence of this escape. It was this "textuality" documentary that let Australian director Peter Weir know the story of Ravitz for the first time. This story has been lingering in Peter Weir's mind, and gradually formed the idea of shooting a movie . Just a few days after the documentary was broadcast, an old Polish man named Witold Glinski found the BBC, and he told the producers of the BBC that he was the prototype of the protagonist of the documentary. After getting to know it, Will was more certain about his idea of putting "The Long Road" on the screen .