SEARCH CLOSE. Jack’s redemption arc marries Affleck’s personal struggles with a story sure to be cautionary and inspiring.“I spent a lot of time hurting myself,” Affleck’s character says in the two-minute trailer. “This is a really important story for anyone dealing with the trials of life,” a source told Us Weekly . “Because of that, one is never really in or out of treatment. Although not based on a true story, the tale it tells is sure to resonate and strike a chord with so many audiences. It was a slip. Warning: Spoilers For The Way Back.. Gavin O'Connor's The Way Back may not be based on a true story, but it carries enough parallels to reality and to other sports movies to feel like it is.
Over the years, critics of the book's accuracy have included Peter Fleming (Ian Fleming's brother), Eric Shipton, and Hugh E. Richardson, a British diplomat stationed in Lhasa. This movie tells their story and that of four others who escaped with them and a teenage girl, Irena Zielinska (Saoirse Ronan), who joins them in flight.
The Soviets, unable to get him to admit that he is a spy, take his wife into custody; from her they extort a statement condemning him. His addiction worsens after learning his former basketball coach suffers a fatal heart attack. During World War II, after the Soviet invasion of Poland, young Polish army officer Janusz Wieszczek is held as a POW and interrogated by the NKVD. He is sentenced to 20 years in a Gulag labour camp deep in Siberia. “I made a lot of bad decisions. The Way Back is itself an old fashioned venture, ... it is based on a disputed 1956 “memoir” called The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz, who claimed to have walked from Siberia to Persia.
But I’m not going to let it derail me,” Affleck said at the time.His sentiments are an echo of a post he made on social media after last year’s rehab.“Battling any addiction is a lifelong and difficult struggle,” he said. Here’s your first look at #TheWayBack, a story of endurance and redemption. I’ve got a lot of regrets.” The words could’ve been pulled from Affleck himself. The group's natural leader is Janusz Weiszczek (Jim Sturgess), a Pole condemned by accusations secured by torturing his wife, spent much of his youth outdoors, and knows how to live in the wild. In theaters this March,” We’d be remiss not to say the poignant snapshot of a “This is a really important story for anyone dealing with the trials of life,” a source told The source added that Affleck “has been very vocal about his bouts with addiction and the challenges to overcome it.” “It happens. I am fighting for myself and my family.”Affleck’s new movie may not be completely true to life, but there are plenty of people who can relate to Jack Cunningham’s The film The Way Back (released in late 2010), directed by Peter Weir, was inspired by the story. Everything changes when Jack is unexpectedly offered the position his former coach once had. There he meets those with whom he later plans an escape: Mr. Smith, an American engineer; Khabarov, an actor; Valka, a hardened Russian criminal; Tom Other versions and historical research There he meets those with whom he later plans an escape: Mr. Smith (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. The movie sees Ben Affleck portray Jack Cunningham, a former high school basketball star who has since fallen on hard times with the collapse of his marriage following the death of his son. The story was The Long Walk, a gripping account of a Polish officer's imprisonment in the Soviet gulag in 1940, his escape and then a trek of 4,000 miles (6,437km) from Siberia to … Directed by Peter Weir. However, The Way Back appears to be a story of fiction. For Ben Affleck, it comes from a personal place. He recently posted the trailer on his social media pages to show what the film means to him.“So proud of this one and the incredible team behind it. It is full-time commitment. After many days of travelling across the snows of Siberia, the group reaches When the group reaches an unpatrolled border between the Soviet Union and Mongolia, Valka, who idolizes At the end of the film, Janusz keeps walking around the world until 1989, when the communist regime in Poland is Many of the events that happen in the gulag scenes come from Varlam Shalamov's Peter Weir 16 February 2011 Australian Broadcasting Corporation interview, part 1Peter Weir February 16, 2011 Australian Broadcasting Corporation interview, part 2 The Way Back isn't a true story, but thanks to the casting of Ben Affleck as a recovering alcoholic and thoughtful direction from Gavin O'Connor, it sure rings true.