davyd-02237 I would like to suggest to you that this movie (although with subtitles) is one of those "cancel other engagements". I believe it to be true and starts close to the end of World War 2 and finishes in the 1950s. Russians were very cruel back then especially to german soldiers. A story of one man who never gave up. you may need a "handkerchief"! one of the finest films I have seen during this or any othe year

robert-armon After more than 70 years and with our historical depth of today knowledge, it is difficult to watch this movie with compassion ! The atrocities of the ruthless German side were no measure to the Soviet side, especially towards my people (children, women and elders !!), not to mention what the SS backed by the Wehrmacht did in Soviet territories till 1943...Indeed, the Soviet treatment can not be considered as "5 stars hotel" to say, but at least they were given the possibility to survive and not exterminated directly after arrival at Treblinka, Auschwitz, etc. by gas chambers and incinerated !! These people were soldiers and not helpless civilian population. If one wants to understand the Russian attitude (which I personally don't support as it was applied against their own citizens by Stalin)should watch the movie "Come and See" (1985) aka "Idi i smotri" by Elem Klimov and understand the Russian animosity towards the German soldiers (they were absolutely not gentleman). Let's put it in the right historical perspective!The roots of suffering started in Germany under Hitler were more than 90% of the population collaborated mostly willingly without a second thought or hesitation. On the artistic side the movie is too long and mainly a nice shot of the Asiatic part of Russia with a very melodramatic end...it makes new generations to think that in this criminal, unique phenomenon of the history all sides were equal in their maliciousness !

hasosch "So Weit Die Füsse Tragen" (2001), directed by Hardy Martins, a stunt coordinator who seems to have a natural great talent in directing and who will hopefully continue making movies in this genre, despite Vilsmaier, has presented a movie that is in two respects more than remarkable: First, it focuses on the often forgotten Stalinistic concentration camps. No one is to accuse the Nazis because of their concentration camps unless he also accuses those of Stalin and makes known of what happened not only before, but also behind the Iron Curtain. Second, the movie tells the story of one single individual without any attempts at generalizing the fate of others or smuggling pseudo-documentary material (f.ex., as it is unfortunately so often the case, in the form of archive footage) into the movie. In its compromise-less realistic and not naturalistic description lies the big value of this movie.Without any scroll-work, the film shows the way of Clemens Forell from his way from Munich to Stalingrad in the last year of World War II, then his deportation to a Stalinistic Concentration Camp in Siberia, afterward his flight, made possible by a terminally ill German physician who provides him with the preparatory work originally intended for himself, then his basically indescribably pains on his unimaginable long and excruciating way through ten thousands of miles of Ice deserts, the taiga, downwards to the South into an Iranian prison, and then his miraculous, yet not fairy-tale-like release and return to his family after more than eight years of absence on Christmas Eve, like scheduled for Midnight Mass.

Sasun Vartanyan An awful, awful movie...I am a sucker for foreign (i.e. non-American) movies, and have yet to seen a bad one, which makes it all the more sad that this one was beyond bad. Horrendous script, right out of chauvinistic B movies from Hollywood..From the very first scene when one of the child actors started looking at the camera rather than the co-star, I knew this was gonna be a dread.Acting was laughable, but what can you do with lines like ..Spoiler Ahead......"It is my victory" at the end(those who have seen the movie will know what I am talking about)...What the heck was that all about..This reminded me of those pathetic propaganda movies that west and east used to produce by cookie cutters during the cold-war times...What a waste...