Escape from East Berlin

Escape from East Berlin

🎞️ Movie 94 min DE
โ˜… 6.7 /10 1962

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In January of 1962, 29 East Berliners escaped to West Berlin via a tunnel they had dug beneath the Berlin Wall, led by Erwin Becker, a chauffeur in the car pool of the East Germany Parliament, who served as technical adviser on this film. The film opens with Karl Schroeder (Don Murray), chauffeur to an East German Major, seeing a friend killed as he tried to drive his truck through the wall, He is persuaded by the friend's sister, Erika Jurgens (Christine Kaufmann), and his own family to engineer an attempt to make an escape to the Western sector of the city by digging a tunnel under the wall which is close to their home. Their efforts to evade the suspicions of the East German police, their fear of betrayal by inquisitive neighbors and the exhaustion of the digging are only a few of the difficulties faced by the group.

Cast

Don Murray
Don Murray
Kurt Schröder
Christine Kaufmann
Christine Kaufmann
Erika Jurgens
Werner Klemperer
Werner Klemperer
Walter Brunner
Ingrid van Bergen
Ingrid van Bergen
Ingeborg Schröder
Edith Schultze-Westrum
Edith Schultze-Westrum
Mother Schröder
Bruno Fritz
Bruno Fritz
Uncle Albrecht
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Maria Tober
Marga
Horst Janson
Horst Janson
Günther Jurgens
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Carl Schell
Major Eckhardt
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Hans Waldemar Anders
Junkman
Hans-Martin Majewski
Hans-Martin Majewski
Composer
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Georg Krause
Cinematographer

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