As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me
(2001)
★ 7.2 IMDb · 158 votes
Year: 2001
Runtime: 158 мин
Country: Germany
Director: Hardy Martins
Cast: Bernhard Bettermann, Михаэль Мендль, Анатолий Котенёв, Андре Хеннике, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Ханс-Уве Бауэр, Antonio Wannek, Ирина Нарбекова, Павел Лебешев, Александр Ефремов
Plot
The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and three endless years of uncertainty later, he is finally about to reach his destination... An edge of your seat drama that celebrates the power of the human spirit and the force of will, while inspired and impowered by love.
As prisoner of war Clemens Forell, a German soldier during World War II, is sentenced to 25 year in a labor camp in far east Siberia. After four years working in the mines he escapes from the camp (in 1949) and tries to get home to his wife and children. For three years he journeys through Siberia. An odyssey of 14,000 kilometers, set against a backdrop of desolate and inhospitable landscape, beset by danger (from both animals and humans). Constantly battling the worst nature can throw at him, Forell makes his way, step by step towards Prussia and the longed-for freedom. Sometimes riding on trains, sometimes by boat, mostly on foot, he never knows if his next step will be his last. His prosecutor Kamenev is always right behind him, and more than once it seems that Forell is captured again.