As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (TV series)

As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (German: So weit die Füße tragen) is a 1959 West German television series which was first broadcast on ARD on six episodes. It is based on the memoirs of Cornelius Rost detailing his escape from a Soviet gulag after being held as prisoner of war.[1] It starred Heinz Weiss as Clemens Forell, the alias used by Rost.

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GenreDrama
Written byJosef Martin Bauer
Fritz Umgelter
Directed byFritz Umgelter
StarringHeinz Weiss
Country of originWest Germany
Original languageGerman
No. of series1
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducerWalter Pindter
Running time400 minutes
Production companyNorddeutscher Rundfunk
Release
Original networkARD
Original release12 February (1959-02-12) 
21 April 1959 (1959-04-21)

Other actors who appeared in the series include Wolfgang Büttner, Johannes Buzalski, Hans Epskamp and Dietrich Thoms.

References

  1. Wienand p.73

Bibliography

Christiane Wienand. Returning Memories: Former Prisoners of War in Divided and Reunited Germany. Boydell & Brewer, 2015.

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