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Tunnel to Freedom( 2021)

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A true German story

Overview

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Udo Rau

      Narrator (voice)

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      Claus Stürmer

      Self

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      Inge Stürmer

      Self

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      Kerstin Stürmer

      Self

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      Peter Schmidt Vogel

      Self (archive footage)

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      Luigi Spina

      Self (archive footage)

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      Domenico Sesta

      Self (archive footage)

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      Hasso Herschel

      Self

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      Uli Pfeiffer

      Self (archive footage)

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      Anita Herschel

      Self (archive footage)

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      Joachim Rudolph

      Self (archive footage)

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      Franz Baake

      Self (archive footage)

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      Fritjof Meyer

      Self (archive footage)

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      Peter Dehmel

      Self (archive footage)

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      Egon Bahr

      Self (archive footage)

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      Ellen Sesta

      Self (archive footage)

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      Daniel Schorr

      Self (archive footage)

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      Reuven Frank

      Self (archive footage)

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      Eveline Rudolph

      Self (archive footage)

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      Ekkehardt Schirmer

      Self (archive footage)

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      John F. Kennedy

      Self (archive footage)

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      Walter Ulbricht

      Self (archive footage)

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      Lyndon B. Johnson

      Self (archive footage)

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      Marilyn Monroe

      Self (archive footage)

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      Helmut Kohl

      Self (voice) (archive footage)

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      Lothar de Maizière

      Self (voice) (archive footage)

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      Richard von Weizsäcker

      Self (voice) (archive footage)

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • berlin, germany
    • berlin wall
    • cold war
    • german-german border
    • interview
    • escape from german democratic republic
    • east berlin
    • construction site
    • archive footage
    • 1960s
    • escape plan
    • old footage
    • television journalist
    • secret tunnel
    • testimony