Tunnel to Freedom

Tunnel to Freedom

95 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | July 22, 2021

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

95 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | July 22, 2021

Tunnel to Freedom
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.
Producers Südwestrundfunk, ARTE, Filmperspektive GmbH, Addictive Film, Little Big Talents, Bukera Pictures
Original title Tunnel der Freiheit
Directors Marcus Vetter
Writers

Cast

Udo Rau

as Narrator (voice)

Claus Stürmer

as Self

Inge Stürmer

as Self

Peter Schmidt Vogel

as Self (archive footage)

Luigi Spina

as Self (archive footage)

Domenico Sesta

as Self (archive footage)

Hasso Herschel

as Self

Uli Pfeiffer

as Self (archive footage)

Anita Herschel

as Self (archive footage)

Joachim Rudolph

as Self (archive footage)

Franz Baake

as Self (archive footage)

Fritjof Meyer

as Self (archive footage)

Peter Dehmel

as Self (archive footage)

Egon Bahr

as Self (archive footage)

Ellen Sesta

as Self (archive footage)

Daniel Schorr

as Self (archive footage)

Reuven Frank

as Self (archive footage)

Eveline Rudolph

as Self (archive footage)

Ekkehardt Schirmer

as Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

as Self (archive footage)

Walter Ulbricht

as Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

as Self (archive footage)

Marilyn Monroe

as Self (archive footage)

Helmut Kohl

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

Lothar de Maizière

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

Richard von Weizsäcker

as Self (voice) (archive footage)