As Far Your Feet Can Take (2001)

Movie
Original title	as far as your feet take you
Country of production	Germany
original language	German , Russian
Publishing year	2001
length	158 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12 JMK 14
Rod
Director	Hardy Martins
script	Bernd Schwamm , Bastian Clevé , Hardy Martins
production	Jimmy C. Gerum , Bastian Clevé
music	Eduard Artemjew
camera	Pavel Lebeschew
cut	Andreas Marshal
occupation
Bernhard Bettermann : Clemens Forell Michael Mendl : Dr. Heinz Stauffer Anatoly Kotenjow : First Lieutenant Kamenev Irina Pantajewa : Irina Iris Böhm : Kathrin Forell Anna Herrmann : Lieschen Adalbert Mayer : Pastor Hans-Uwe Bauer : Leibrecht Antonio Wannek : Mattern André M. Hennicke : Bauknecht Johannes Hitzblech : Danhorn Stephan Wolf-Schönburg : Klugmann Alexander Jefremov : Igor Nikolai Kondrashkin : Shaman Vladimir corpus : Semyon Hans Peter Hallwachs : Erich Baudrexel

As far as your feet can carry is a German feature film . It was created in 2001 under the direction of Hardy Martins and is based on the novel of the same name by Josef Martin Bauer .

Also on the novel of the first created in 1959 based television miniseries As far as your feet can carry from Fritz Umgelter .

action

In 1944, during the Second World War , First Lieutenant Clemens Forell boarded a train to fight at the front in the Soviet Union . He says goodbye to his wife Kathrin and his daughter in the hope of being home again for Christmas. But as a Soviet prisoner of war, Forell is sentenced to 25 years of forced labor in an East Siberian lead mine in Cape Deschnjow . After his first attempt to escape, his comrades beat him half to death in a gauntlet , because they were punished with food deprivation for his attempt to escape.

Forell meets the German doctor Heinz Stauffer, who is preparing himself for an escape, but knows that he doesn't have much longer to live. So Dr. Stauffer Forell his equipment and informs him about a possible escape route. When the Soviet commander noticed Kamenev Forell's second escape, he found Stauffer dead in his room. Kamenev pursues trout through the Soviet Union , but it escapes several times. When Forell, with the help of the Armenian Jew Igor, whom he met in Kasalinsk , was able to obtain a passport and crossed the border bridge, Forell and Kamenev met in a “western style”. Kamenev lets trout pass with the words “I defeated you!”.

In Tehran Forell in December 1952 on suspicion of being a Soviet spy, imprisoned, but his uncle Erich Baudrexel that in several years Turkey works can identify him. After all, Troell comes home to his family on Christmas Eve .

background

While Fritz Umgelter's television series from 1959 largely sticks to the original book, the film adaptation of Hardy Martins deviates significantly from it. The remake emphasizes the relationship with the Soviet officer Lieutenant Kamenev, who chases trout. This character does not appear in either the novel or the Umgelter film adaptation. Since the film is largely set in Russia, the director had Russian actors who also spoke Russian in large parts of the film. The film received an award for best production design at the Milan Film Festival in 2002.

Reviews

“Ex-stuntman Hardy Martins is now offering a gripping remake of the legendary multi-part TV series by Fritz Umgelter from 1958 , after his cinema debut Cascadeur, which unfortunately was not appreciated by the audience and therefore failed at the box office. The story is based on the factual novel of the same name by Josef Martin Bauer. The shooting on the original locations turned out to be just as adventurous as the story. Here too, those involved often had to go to their limits. The result: exciting, elaborately staged entertainment in front of a grandiose natural backdrop! "

- prisma.de

"Interested less in the political background than in the adventure potential of the story, the film convinces, despite some narrative redundancies, above all with the great pictures and a very present acting main actor."

- Lexicon of international film

See also

• The Way Back - a literary film adaptation of the novel The Long Way: My Escape from the Gulag by Sławomir Rawicz from 2010 with a similar theme

literature

• Josef Martin Bauer : As far as your feet can carry. Novel. One life, one love, one way. A classic of adventure literature - newly filmed for the cinema. Complete paperback edition, Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2002, ISBN 3-404-14666-2 .

Web links

• As far as the feet carry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• As far as your feet can take at filmportal.de
• Table of contents
• As far as the feet carry at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ As far as your feet can carry. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 12, 2017 . 
2. ↑ As far as your feet can carry. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 12, 2017 .