Tunnel to Freedom

Tunnel to Freedom

2021
1h 35min

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day. But on September 14, 1962, exactly one year, one month and one day after the Wall was built, a group of 29 people from the GDR managed to escape spectacularly through a 135-meter tunnel to the West. For more than 4 months, students from West Berlin, including 2 Italians, dug this tunnel. When the tunnel builders ran out of money after only a few meters of digging, they came up with the idea of marketing the escape tunnel. They sell the film rights to the story exclusively to NBC, an American television station.

Tunnel to Freedom

Storyline

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day. But on September 14, 1962, exactly one year, one month and one day after the Wall was built, a group of 29 people from the GDR managed to escape spectacularly through a 135-meter tunnel to the West. For more than 4 months, students from West Berlin, including 2 Italians, dug this tunnel. When the tunnel builders ran out of money after only a few meters of digging, they came up with the idea of marketing the escape tunnel. They sell the film rights to the story exclusively to NBC, an American television station.
    Released
    22 July 2021
    Runtime
    1h 35min
    Director
    Genre
    Status
    Released
    Language
    German
    Production
    Filmperspektive, Addictive Film, SWR, ARTE, Little Big Talents, Bukera Pictures
Cast
Udo Rau
Narrator (voice)
Claus Stürmer
Self
Inge Stürmer
Self
Kerstin Stürmer
Self
Peter Schmidt Vogel
Self (archive footage)
Luigi Spina
Self (archive footage)
Domenico Sesta
Self (archive footage)
Hasso Herschel
Self
Uli Pfeiffer
Self (archive footage)
Anita Herschel
Self (archive footage)
Joachim Rudolph
Self (archive footage)
Franz Baake
Self (archive footage)
Fritjof Meyer
Self (archive footage)
Peter Dehmel
Self (archive footage)
Egon Bahr
Egon Bahr
Self (archive footage)
Ellen Sesta
Self (archive footage)
Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr
Self (archive footage)
Reuven Frank
Self (archive footage)
Eveline Rudolph
Self (archive footage)
Ekkehardt Schirmer
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Walter Ulbricht
Walter Ulbricht
Self (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Helmut Kohl
Helmut Kohl
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Lothar de Maizière
Lothar de Maizière
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Richard von Weizsäcker
Richard von Weizsäcker
Self (voice) (archive footage)
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