Tunnel to Freedom
Tunnel to Freedom

Tunnel to Freedom

A true German story

7.2(5 votes)
2021
1h 35m
Documentary
History
TV Movie

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.

Production

Filmperspektive, Addictive Film, SWR, ARTE, Little Big Talents, Bukera Pictures

Cast

Udo Rau

Udo Rau

Narrator (voice)

Claus Stürmer

Claus Stürmer

Self

Inge Stürmer

Inge Stürmer

Self

Kerstin Stürmer

Kerstin Stürmer

Self

Hasso Herschel

Hasso Herschel

Self

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