Berlin Tunnel 21

Mar 25, 1981

2h 22m

★ 6.5

Five determined men attempt a daring rescue under the Berlin Wall.

Overview

In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

Cypress Point Productions

Filmways Television

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Cast

Sandy Mueller

Richard Thomas

Emerich Weber

Horst Buchholz

Martin Komansky

José Ferrer

Ilse Morrell

Ute Christensen

Joachim Lentz

Jacques Breuer

Georg Heptner

Nicholas Farrell

Bruno Balderbach

Kenneth Griffith

Dr. Lentz

Robert Freitag

Phil

Gerald W. Abrams

Butcher Customer

Ilse Bahrs

Wolf Lentz

Pasqual Breuer

Klaus Schoenemann

Carl Duering

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