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| genre                = Drama
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| writer               = [[Josef Martin Bauer]] <br> Fritz Umgelter
| director             = [[Fritz Umgelter]]
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| starring             = [[Heinz Weiss]]
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| country              = West Germany
| language             = German
| num_series           = 1
| num_episodes         = 6
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| producer             = [[Walter Pindter]]
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| runtime              = 400 minutes
| company              = [[Norddeutscher Rundfunk]]
| channel              = [[ARD (broadcaster)|ARD]]
| first_aired          = {{start date|1959|2|12|df=y}}
| last_aired           = {{end date|1959|4|21|df=y}}
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'''''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 (broadcaster)|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]].<ref>Wienand p.73</ref> It starred [[Heinz Weiss]] as Clemens Forell, the alias used by Rost.
Other actors who appeared in the series include [[Wolfgang Büttner]], [[Johannes Buzalski]], [[Hans Epskamp]] and [[Dietrich Thoms]].
== References ==
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==Bibliography==
Christiane Wienand. ''Returning Memories: Former Prisoners of War in Divided and Reunited Germany''. Boydell & Brewer, 2015.
==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0052509}}
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[[Category:Television shows set in Russia]]
[[Category:1959 German television series debuts]]
[[Category:German-language television shows]]
[[Category:German drama television series]]