''12 Paces Without a Head'' (german: Zwölf Meter ohne Kopf) is a 2009 film set in the
North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the ...
in 1401. The film centers on the
German
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folk hero
Klaus Störtebeker
"Nikolaus" Storzenbecher or "Klaus" Störtebeker (1360 – supposed 20 October 1401) was reputed to be leader of a group of privateers known as the Victual Brothers (german: Vitalienbrüder). The Victual Brothers ( la, victualia) were ...
, who was a pirate at the time. The title comes from a legend which asserts that when he was captured by the
Hanseatic League, he struck a deal with his captors that every one of his men whom he could walk past after being decapitated, would be let go. Störtebeker's body allegedly managed to make twelve paces before collapsing.
Cast
See also
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2009 films
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Comedy films based on actual events
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Films set in 15th-century Holy Roman Empire
Films set in the 1400s
2000s German-language films
German adventure comedy films
Pirate films
German historical adventure films
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