page_title: Ways across the Country
section_title: Episode II
hierarchical_section_title: Ways across the Country / Plot / Episode II
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Zentralbild-DEFA frie 24.9.68 Berlin: "Wege übers Land" - Szenefoto Gefährlich ist der Auftrag, den der Kommunist Willi Hoyer (Manfred Krug) für die Partei übernommen hat: die Rettung des jüdischen Professors Pinarski (Marian Melman) aus dem KZ. Mit der Gestalt des aufrechten Patrioten Willi Heyer, den Jahre der Zuchthaushaft nicht brechen konnten, gelingt es Sakowski, das bessere Deutschland jener Jahre organisch und überzeugend in das Geschehen einzufügen. Die weibliche Hauptrolle in Helmut Sakowskis dramatischem Fernsehroman, der zur Zeit in fünf Folgen gesendet wird, übernahm Ursula Karusseit. Regie führte Martin Bokermann, der gleichzeitg auch das Drehbuch schrieb."
context_page_description: Ways across the Country is a 1968 East German television miniseries, directed by Martin Ackermann.
context_section_description: Kalluweit is given a farm in Poland, where he and his wife are to be part of the new 'Master Race'. They witness the brutal deportation of the local Poles. Gertrud saves a little girl, Mala, who is harassed by SS men and adopts her. Heyer, who is now imprisoned in a concentration camp, saves Polish professor Pinarski from the AB Action; they escape the camp. When Gertrud discovers that Mala is Jewish, she finds Leßtorff and convinces him to arrange fake papers for her; he agrees, on condition that she takes in another child, Stefan. Kalluweit volunteers to join the Wehrmacht after SS officer Schneider wants to draft him to his organization.
caption: Heyer, disguised as an SS guard, helps Pinarski to flee the camp.
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