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28-498: Way Back may refer to: Film and television [ edit ] The Way Back (2010 film) , an American survival film directed by Peter Weir The Way Back (2020 film) , a sports drama film starring Ben Affleck "The Way Back", the first episode of sci-fi series Blake's 7 Music [ edit ] Way Back , a 2022 album by High Valley "Way Back" (John Conlee song) , 1984 "Way Back" (TLC song) , 2017 "Way Back",

56-522: A 2013 American film Wayback (disambiguation) No Way Back (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Way Back . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Way_Back&oldid=1233022790 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

84-428: A 74% approval rating based on 139 reviews, with an average rating of 6.88/10. The critics consensus is: "It isn't as emotionally involving as it should be, but this Peter Weir epic offers sweeping ambition and strong performances to go with its grand visual spectacle." On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 66 out of 100 based on 33 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Empire awarded

112-510: A considerable connection and trade with their neighbors. The first indications of human inhabitants on the lands of modern Latvia date archaeologically to c. 9000 BC, suggesting that the first settlers were hunters that stayed almost immediately following the end of the last ice age . Colonizers from the south arrived quickly, driving many of the hunters northward as polar ice caps melted further, or east, into modern-day Russia , Belarus , and Ukraine . The Roman author Tacitus remarked upon

140-447: A hardened Russian criminal; Tomasz, a Polish artist; Voss, a Latvian priest; Kazik, a Pole suffering from night blindness ; and Zoran, a Yugoslav accountant. Khabarov secretly tells Janusz that he is planning to escape south to Mongolia , passing Lake Baikal . Smith cautions Janusz that it is Khabarov's way to discuss escape plans with newcomers, to maintain his morale, but nothing will come of it. At times, Janusz seems to hallucinate

168-564: A key hidden beneath the rock to open the door and reconcile with his wife. The film is loosely based on The Long Walk (1956), Sławomir Rawicz 's memoir depicting his alleged escape from a Siberian Gulag and subsequent 4,000-mile walk to freedom in India. The book sold over 500,000 copies and is credited with inspiring many explorers. In 2006 the BBC unearthed records (including some written by Rawicz himself) which showed that, rather than having escaped from

196-508: A red star. Janusz realises that Mongolia is under communist control and since China is at war with Japan , tells the group they should take refuge in British India . As they continue south across the Gobi Desert , lack of water, sandstorms, sunburn, blisters, and sunstroke weaken the group. They find a well, which provides temporary relief. However, shortly after departing, they are hit by

224-443: A sandstorm and lose the majority of their water supply. Realizing they could never find the well again, the group carries on. Irena collapses several times and soon dies. A few days later Tomasz collapses and dies. Smith is on the verge of death, but after being motivated by Janusz, Zoran, and Voss, decides to rejoin the group and the severely dehydrated four find a much-needed water source. Soon after, they reach China by passing through

252-405: A small but vibrant Herrnhutist movement played a significant part in the development of Latvian literary culture before it was absorbed into the mainstream Lutheran denomination. Latvians' ancestral language, Latvian , has been recorded since at least the 16th century. It developed into a distinct language by the 9th century. It is part of a distinct linguistic branch of Indo-European languages:

280-512: A song by Skrillex from Don't Get Too Close , 2023 "Way Back", a song by Travis Scott from Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight , 2016 "Way Back", a song by Yeat from 2 Alive , 2022 Novels [ edit ] The Way Back (novel) , a 2020 novel by Gavriel Savit The Road Back ( Der Weg Zurück ), also translated as The Way Back, a 1931 novel by Erich Maria Remarque See also [ edit ] The Way, Way Back ,

308-776: Is a modern revival of the ethnic religion of the Latvians before Christianization in the 13th century CE. Most of the Christian Latvians claim to belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church , but in Latgale and Alsunga Municipality the Roman Catholic Church is predominant, a small minority of Latvians belong to the Latvian Orthodox Church and other religious congregations. In the late 18th century,

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336-553: Is associated with spread of Indo-European languages . R1a of Latvians is predominantly M558, and compared to other populations like South Slavs and West Slavs , Latvians also have the highest concentration of M558 among R1a. N1a1-Tat mutation originated in Northeast Asia and had spread throughout the Urals into Europe, where it is currently most common among Finno-Ugric , Baltic and East Slavic peoples . Latvians and Lithuanians have

364-399: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Way Back (2010 film) The film received generally positive reviews from critics and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Makeup , but lost to The Wolfman . The nomination was received by Gregory Funk , Edouard F. Henriques and Yolanda Toussieng . During World War II, after

392-662: The Baltic languages . Another notable language of Latvia is the nearly extinct Livonian language , a member of the Baltic-Finnic sub-branch of the Uralic language family, which enjoys protection by law. The Latgalian language (a dialect of Latvian) is also protected by Latvian law as a historical variation of the Latvian language. Paternal haplogroups R1a and N1a1-Tat are the two most frequent, reaching 39.9% each among ethnic Latvians. R1a

420-611: The Great Wall . As they reach the Himalayas , all of them on the verge of death, they are rescued by a Tibetan monk who takes them to a Buddhist monastery where they regain their strength. Smith decides to go to Lhasa with the help of one of the monk's contacts, who will smuggle him out through China. Once there, he anticipates he will be able to connect with the US military, his return to America ensured. The remaining three continue to trek through

448-469: The Himalayas and soon reach India and get assistance from villagers. The Indian government helps them reach their home peacefully. At the end of the film, Janusz keeps walking around the world until 1989, when the communist regime in Poland is ousted from power . The final scene of the film shows Janusz, 50 years after being taken captive, again envisioning the door and reaching for the rock; this time he takes

476-503: The Livs settled among the northern coast of modern day Latvia. The Germanic settlers derived their name for the natives from the term Liv. They referred to all the natives as "Letts" and the nation as "Lettland", naming their colony Livonia or Livland. The Latin form, Livonia , gradually referred to the whole territory of modern-day Latvia as well as southern Estonia , which had fallen under Germanic influence. Latvians and Lithuanians are

504-632: The Soviet invasion of Poland , young Polish army officer Janusz Wieszczek is held as a prisoner and interrogated by the NKVD . The Soviets, unable to get him to admit that he is a spy, take his wife into custody as well and severely torture her; from her, they extort a statement condemning him. He is sentenced to 20 years in a Gulag labour camp deep in Siberia . There he meets those with whom he later plans an escape: Mr. Smith, an American engineer; Khabarov, an actor; Valka,

532-561: The " Aestii " peoples, thought to be inhabitants of the modern Baltic lands, suggesting that they were abound with formidable, yet peaceful and hospitable people. The Latvian peoples remained relatively undisturbed until Papal intervention via the Germanic , Teutonic Order colonized Kurzeme (Courland in English, Kurland in German), beginning in the first half of the 13th century. Papal decrees ordered

560-773: The Teutonic Order to spread the "Word of the Lord" and the Gospel of Christianity throughout "uncivilized", "Pagan lands". Though these attempts to Christianize the population failed, and the Teutonic Order eventually redeployed southward, to the region of what was once known as East Prussia . Baltic ethnic religion was followed in Latvia before it was invaded by the Christian Teutonic Order (see: Latvian mythology ). Latvians still celebrate traditional feasts ( Jāņi ). Dievturība

588-442: The film three out of five stars and wrote, "It's good, but from this director we have come to expect great." The Guardian awarded it three out of five and wrote, "Weir has put together a good film – oddly, though, considering its scale, it feels like a rather small one." The Telegraph called the film "A journey that feels awful and heroic and unfathomable – and one you'll want to watch again." The soundtrack to The Way Back

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616-440: The front door of a country home and adjoining window ledge, which holds plants and a rock he attempts to reach for. Janusz follows through with the escape with Smith, Valka, Voss, Tomasz, Zoran, and Kazik during a severe snowstorm that covers their tracks. Kazik freezes to death the second night of the trek, after losing his way back to the campsite while looking for wood, and the group buries him. After many days of traveling across

644-640: The group to let her in. Smith eventually cautions her about the lie and says he will not tolerate anymore, in response to which she admits that her parents were communists but the communist rulers killed them anyway and sent her to an orphanage. When the group reaches an unpatrolled border between the Soviet Union and Mongolia, Valka, who idolizes Joseph Stalin and does not know what he would do elsewhere, decides to stay. The rest continue to Ulaanbaatar , but soon they see images of Stalin, Khorloogiin Choibalsan and

672-585: The gulag, he had in fact been released by the USSR in 1942. Nevertheless, there is some circumstantial evidence that some sort of trek to freedom occurred, via the route outlined in the book and film. Captain Rupert Mayne, a British intelligence officer in Calcutta in 1942, interviewed three emaciated men, who claimed to have escaped from Siberia. Mayne always believed their story was the same as that of The Long Walk . So

700-473: The only surviving members of the Baltic branch of the Indo-European family . Latvians share a common language and have a unique culture with traditions, holidays, customs and arts. The culture and religious traditions have been somewhat influenced by Germanic , Scandinavian , and Russian traditions. Latvians have an ancient culture that has been archaeologically dated back to 3000 BC. Latvians maintained

728-532: The possibility remains that someone – even if not Rawicz – achieved this extraordinary feat. Though the director Peter Weir continues to claim that the so-called long walk happened, he himself now describes The Way Back as "essentially a fictional film". Laurence Harvey and Herbert Wilcox announced plans to make a film from The Long Walk in 1957. Principal photography took place in Bulgaria , Morocco and India. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports

756-503: The snows of Siberia, the group reaches Lake Baikal . There they meet Irena, a young Polish girl, who tells them that Russian soldiers murdered her parents and sent her to a collective farm near Warsaw , where they treated her cruelly, so she escaped. Smith notices the inaccuracies in her story, as Warsaw is occupied by the Germans ; nevertheless, despite his misgivings that she'll slow them down and tax their meager food supply, he agrees with

784-465: Was released on January 18, 2011. Latvians Latvians ( Latvian : latvieši ) are a Baltic ethnic group and nation native to Latvia and the immediate geographical region, the Baltics . They are occasionally also referred to as Letts , especially in older bibliography. Latvians share a common Latvian language , culture , history and ancestry. A Balto-Finnic -speaking tribe known as

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