Ways across the Country
- Ursula Karusseit: Gertrud Habersaat
- Christa Lehmann: the old Habersaat
- Erika Pelikowsky: the old Leßtorff
- Armin Mueller-Stahl: Jürgen Leßtorff
- Erik S. Klein: Emil Kalluweit
- Manfred Krug Willi Heyer
- Renate racing hack: Martha Heyer
- Angelica Domröse: Countess Palvner
- Carmen - Maja Antoni: Irma
- Hans Klering: Leitkow
- Lothar Bellag: Hans Frank
- Trude Bechmann: the old Simmoneit
- Hans Hardt- Hardtloff: Siebold
- Anna Prucnal: Steffa
- Ireneusz Kanicki: Jan
- Włodzimierz Kowalski: Edek
- Marian Melman: Prof. Pinarski
- Volkmar Kleinert: SS First Lieutenant Schneider
- Kathrin Hercher: Mala
- Ingolf Gorges: Fredi Neuschulz
- Elsa Grube- Deister: Miss Savoy
- Elfriede Florin: Woman Meisdorf
- Otto Dierichs: Bauer Heinemann
- Erich Brauer: Hansel Bauer
- Alwin Brosch: Bauer Frenzel
- Harry Merkel: Müller
- Margit Bendokat: miller
- Cheslav Moiseyev: Soviet officer
- Valentin Kiselyov: Soviet officer
- Anne- Kathrein Kretzschmar: large Mala
- Berko Acker: Stefan
- Berndt Renné: Jochen
- Ernst Kahler: Krause
- Helga Raumer: Woman Heinemann
- Gerd Ehlers: Jankow
- Horst Kube: Brachmann
- Peter Marx: Executive director
- Aleksandra Karzyńska: Bronka, Stefan's mother
- Guido Matschek: Teacher
- Fritz Links: gravedigger
- Wolfgang Arnst: gravedigger
- Friedrich Teitge: Gardener
- Ernst -Georg Schwill: SS man
- Zygmunt Mierzwiak: German people
- Iwa Młodnicka: Polish woman
- Uwe Detlef Jessen -: older SS man
- Lothar Dimke: item
- Gerd Michael Henneberg: Friedrich- Wilhelm Krüger
- Hans Knötzsch: Officer in Krakow
- Wiebke Fuhrken: farmer
- Günther Polensen: Official Walter
- Eugen Eschnerberg: young SS man
- Willi Schrade: corporal
- Jürgen Marten: Untersturmführer
Way across the country is a five-part television film of the German Television of the GDR. The screenplay was written by Martin Eckermann, who also led the Director, after a scenario by Helmut Sakowski.
In the center of the story is Gertrud Habersaat, which initially serves on a large farm in the German Reich, and then managed a farm expropriated in conquered Poland. It adopts three children, after the land reform itself Neubäuerin. Closely involved in the events surrounding the merger of farmers to their village agricultural production cooperatives and their adversaries they then takes over the presidency of the LPG.
Subplots show the struggle of the Communist Willi Heyer against the Nazis and the development of the landowner Jürgen Leßtorff.
In the film, the years are addressed during and after the Second World War, the flight and expulsion, the time in the Soviet Occupation Zone and in the later GDR until about the early 1960s.
The first broadcast took place from 22 to 29 September 1968 German Television. According DFF surveys reached way across the country on average an audience of 77.7 % in the GDR, or about 7.8 million viewers.
Awards
The film collective ( scenarist Helmut Sakowski, director Martin Eckermann, dramaturge Helga Korff - precious, cameraman Hans -Jürgen Heimlich and the protagonist Ursula Karusseit, Manfred Krug and Christa Lehmann ) received on October 3, 1968 National Prize of the GDR First Class. Angelica Domröse received on October 2, 1969 Art Prize of the GDR.
Novel issues
- Helmut Sakowski: Ways across the state. Television novel. Means German Verlag Halle (Saale ), 1969.
- Helmut Sakowski: Ways across the state. Novel. Construction Paperback -Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3-7466-1361-2