Tunnel to Freedom

Jul 22, 2021

1h 35m

★ 7.2

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.

Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

Filmperspektive

Addictive Film

SWR

ARTE

Little Big Talents

Bukera Pictures

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Udo Rau

Self

Claus Stürmer

Self

Inge Stürmer

Self

Kerstin Stürmer

Self

Hasso Herschel

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0.0

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6.6

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7.7

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7.5

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4.0

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5.7

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0.0

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6.5

Mission to Mir

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Feb 27, 2013

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8.0

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No overview available.

2.9

Crazy Race 2 - Warum die Mauer wirklich fiel

Nov 21, 2004

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0.0

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0.0

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6.7

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6.0

Factory Girl

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7.6

The Corporation

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Tunnel to Freedom

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