So weit die Füße tragen (2001)

Director:

Hardy Martins

Writers:

Josef Martin Bauer (novel)
Bastian Clevé (writer)

Release Date:

27 December 2001 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama | War

Plot:

As prisoner of war Clemens Forell, a German soldier during WW II, is sentenced to a labour camp in far east Siberia...

Plot Keywords:

Siberia | Border | Prison | Pow | War Criminal

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Bernhard Bettermann	...	Clemens Forell
Michael Mendl	...	Dr. Stauffer
Anatoliy Kotenyov	...	Kamenev (as Anatoly Kotenyov)
Irina Pantaeva	...	Irina
Iris Böhm	...	Kathrin
Anna Hermann	...	Lieschen
Adalbert Mayer	...	Pfarrer (as Pfarrer Dr. Adalbert Mayer)
Hans Peter Hallwachs	...	Onkel Baudrexel
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Egor Abrossimov
Hans-Uwe Bauer	...	Leibrecht (as Hans Uwe Bauer)
Simon Beckord	...	Frieder
Igor Filchenkov	...	Anastas
Heinrich Giskes
André Hennicke	...	Bauknecht
Johannes Hitzblech	...	Danhorn
Nikolai Kondrashkin	...	Schamane
Vladimir Korpus	...	Semjon (as Wladimir Korpus)
Pavel Lebeshev	...	Chief prison camp
Irina Narbekova	...	Dr. Pachmutova
Anna Sonntag
Antonio Wannek	...	Mattern
Stephan Wolf-Schönburg	...	Klugmann
Aleksandr Yefremov	...	Igor

Also Known As:

As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me (International: English title)

Runtime:

158 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German | Russian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Germany:12 | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Germany

Company:

B & C Filmproduktion GmbH

Trivia:

Bernhard Bettermann's grandfathers both were sent to Soviet POW camps at the end of World War Two.

Goofs:

Continuity: Anastas' dead body changes positions between shots.

Movie Connections:

Remake of "So weit die Füße tragen" (1959)

Very nice movie

I like this movie very much - from my point of view its one of the best German movies i saw last years.

Protagonist of movie is Clemens Forell, a German soldier in WWII, judged by Stalins Soviet Union to many years of "Arbeitslager" (you can also say "Gulag") in the most north-east of Siberia - what was normally equal to be judged to death (for example only 6000 from close to 100.000 POWs from the "Battle for Stalingrad" returned ever home - last ones in 1956 - 3 years after Stalin died).

So, this movie shows the escape of Forell, going (mostly) by feet thousands of miles to escape from this point in the Soviet Union, where no tree grows - East Siberia.

What is nice in this movie is the fact, that you realise, that not Forell, or the Russian people, have any hate against each other - its government, who made all this - the tyranny of Hitler and Stalin.

This movie is really nice made - you don't want to stop to watch - as you cant stop reading a good book - i recommend it for everybody who want to see something about a part of WWII, where nobody speaks too often about - or who want to watch only a really nice movie.

10 of 10 from me for this movie.