A Hero's Death

A Hero's Death

50 mins | Documentary | Aug. 8, 2001

It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, 57 East-Berliners try their luck through a tunnel into West Berlin. Just before the last few reach the other side, the East German border guards notice the escape and open fire. Remarkably, all the refugees and their escape agents make it out of the tunnel unscathed, but one border guard is dead: 21-year-old officer Egon Schultz.

A Hero's Death

50 mins | Documentary | Aug. 8, 2001

A Hero's Death
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, 57 East-Berliners try their luck through a tunnel into West Berlin. Just before the last few reach the other side, the East German border guards notice the escape and open fire. Remarkably, all the refugees and their escape agents make it out of the tunnel unscathed, but one border guard is dead: 21-year-old officer Egon Schultz.
Producers Ziegler Film
Original title Heldentod - Der Tunnel und die Lüge
Directors Britta Wauer
Writers Britta Wauer

Cast

Rainer Albertz

as Himself

Michael Baade

as Himself

Egon Bahr

as Himself

Nadine Beyer

as herself

Günter Bohnsack

as Himself

Johannes Fröhner

as Himself

Regine Hildebrandt

as herself

Hubert Hohlbein

as Himself

Hagen Koch

as Himself

Thomas Mauch

as Himself

Siegfried Mechler

as Himself

Joachim Neumann

as Himself

Ludwig A. Rehlinger

as Himself

Jürgen Schreiber

as Himself

Walter Venedey

as Himself

Hermann von Berg

as Himself

Hartmut Wolter

as Himself