Poster movie

Tunnel to Freedom

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Lenguage:95 min

Duration:de

Release date:Jul 22, 2021

Calificacion:7.2

Description:

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.

Cast

Udo Rau
Udo RauNarrator (voice)
Claus Stürmer
Claus StürmerSelf
Inge Stürmer
Inge StürmerSelf
Kerstin Stürmer
Kerstin StürmerSelf
Peter Schmidt Vogel
Peter Schmidt VogelSelf (archive footage)
Luigi Spina
Luigi SpinaSelf (archive footage)
Domenico Sesta
Domenico SestaSelf (archive footage)
Hasso Herschel
Hasso HerschelSelf
Uli Pfeiffer
Uli PfeifferSelf (archive footage)
Anita Herschel
Anita HerschelSelf (archive footage)

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