Edward Artemiev - As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me

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Edward Artemiev's score to the 1988 film version of As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me directed by Hardy Martins is a powerful portrayal in sound of the true story of the incredible journey undertaken by German soldier Clemens Forrell in his dramatic escape from a Siberian labour camp. Set against a backdrop of desolate and inhospitable landscape, beset by danger both from animals and humans, constantly battling the worst nature can throw at him, Forell makes his way step by step, kilometre by kilometre, towards Persia and longed for freedom. A journey of three years, sometimes riding on trains or by boat, mostly on foot he travels more than 14,000 km. In December 1952, eight years after he was sent to fight in a war that was already lost, he was re-united with his family.

As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me is a novel, So Weit Die Füsse Tragen, by Josef Martin Bauer, Luebbe. 1855. Known as one of the most successful European adventure-dramas, this novel was translated into 15 languages with more than 30 million copies sold worldwide and has up to today been selling on the German market with 80,000 copies annually. An early film adaptation was produced in 1959 as one of the first and most successful German TV mini-series. Apart from being a story of extraordinary adventure, awe-inspiring in its bare facts, this book is full of information about the remotest parts of the Soviet Union. Forrell is himself no writer, and was at first too deeply scarred both mentally and physically to attempt a connected narrative. Herr Bauer has drawn his story from him, identified himself with it to a remarkable degree and has told it without false heroics, making it into a profoundly impressive book. (sleeve notes from the 1958 American translation edition of Bauer's novel). Never understimate the sheer power of the human spirit and the force of will when it is inspired by love. That's the message in As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me.