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As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me is a 2001 film about German World War II prisoner of war Clemens Forell's escape from a Siberian Gulag in the Soviet Union back to Germany. It is based on the book of the same name written by Bavarian novelist Josef Martin Bauer. The book is in turn based on the story of Cornelius Rost who used the alias "Clemens Forell" to avoid retribution from the KGB. A previous television…
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History in the past few centuries suggests that invading Russia is, more often than not, a bad idea. The protagonist of *As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me*, a 2001 German adventure film directed by Hardy Martins, is one of many individuals who suffered the consequences of such a decision. The plot begins in 1944, during the Second World War, and the protagonist is Lieutenant Clemens Forrell (played by Bernhard Betterm…More
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It seems that I watch more than my fair share of World War II movies. There are a lot of directions you can go with the genre. Each country that participated in World War II has a unique perspective. Although the United States has produced countless films on the subject, it always intrigues me to see the subject covered from the German perspective. The Germans were brutal to the Soviets, who seem to have extracted s…More