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Tunnel to Freedom (2021)

ALL 07/22/2021 (de) Documentary, History, TV Movie 95 Min
  • Release
    07/22/2021
  • Production
    Filmperspektive, Addictive Film, SWR, ARTE, Little Big Talents, Bukera Pictures
  • Rotten tomato
    72%
  • Original title
    Tunnel der Freiheit
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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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.

  1. Marcus Vetter

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Ulf Meyer

    Producer



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  1. Udo Rau

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Claus Stürmer

    Self

  3. Inge Stürmer

    Self

  4. Kerstin Stürmer

    Self

  5. Peter Schmidt Vogel

    Self (archive footage)

  6. Luigi Spina

    Self (archive footage)

  7. Domenico Sesta

    Self (archive footage)

  8. Hasso Herschel

    Self

  9. Uli Pfeiffer

    Self (archive footage)

  10. Anita Herschel

    Self (archive footage)

  11. Joachim Rudolph

    Self (archive footage)

  12. Franz Baake

    Self (archive footage)

  13. Fritjof Meyer

    Self (archive footage)

  14. Peter Dehmel

    Self (archive footage)

  15. Egon Bahr

    Self (archive footage)

  16. Ellen Sesta

    Self (archive footage)

  17. Daniel Schorr

    Self (archive footage)

  18. Reuven Frank

    Self (archive footage)

  19. Eveline Rudolph

    Self (archive footage)

  20. Ekkehardt Schirmer

    Self (archive footage)

  21. John F. Kennedy

    Self (archive footage)

  22. Walter Ulbricht

    Self (archive footage)

  23. Lyndon B. Johnson

    Self (archive footage)

  24. Marilyn Monroe

    Self (archive footage)

  25. Helmut Kohl

    Self (voice) (archive footage)

  26. Lothar de Maizière

    Self (voice) (archive footage)

  27. Richard von Weizsäcker

    Self (voice) (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 27 , Crews : 20

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Tunnel to Freedom (2021) 95 Min

ALL 07/22/2021 (de)
Documentary, History, TV Movie
  • Release 07/22/2021
  • Production
    Filmperspektive, Addictive Film, SWR, ARTE, Little Big Talents, Bukera Pictures
  • Original title Tunnel der Freiheit
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Marcus Vetter

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Marcus Vetter, Renate Nebe

    Editor

  4. Ulf Meyer

    Producer



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