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The Way Back

2010 · Film · United States, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India · Directed by Peter Weir

Poster of The Way Back
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Egyptian-style film sets behind the walls of Atlas Studios in Ouarzazate
Filmed here: Ouarzazate · Photo: Yair Haklai, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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The Way Back is a 2010 American epic survival drama film directed and produced by Peter Weir, from a screenplay co-written with Keith Clarke. The film is inspired by The Long Walk, the 1956 memoir of former Polish prisoner of war Sławomir Rawicz, who claimed to have escaped from a Soviet Gulag and walked 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to freedom in World War II. It stars Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, and Saoirse Ronan, with Alexandru Potocean, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Gustaf Skarsgård, Dragoș Bucur and Mark Strong.

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Sources, checked 2026-11-15
  1. Arabic Wikipedia, filming-location category
  2. Wikipedia: Category:Films shot in Morocco
  3. French Wikipedia, filming-location category
  4. French Wikipedia, filming-location category
  5. Wikidata, filming location (P915)

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Also shot there, and the sets to visit

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves1954 · Taroudant, Ouarzazate, AgadirThe Man Who Knew Too Much1956 · Ouarzazate, MarrakechLawrence of Arabia1962 · Ouarzazate, Aït BenhaddouSodom and Gomorrah1962 · Marrakech, OuarzazateGreed in the Sun1964 · Ouarzazate, MarrakechOedipus Rex1967 · Ouarzazate, Aït Benhaddou, ZagoraThe Man Who Would Be King1975 · Ouarzazate, Aït BenhaddouBanzaï1983 · OuarzazateThe film mapEvery title shot in Morocco, with filtersVisiting the film setsA route to Ouarzazate, Aït Benhaddou, Essaouira and Tangier

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